Arbil, Sept 16, (VOI) – Kwistan Abdullah, the deputy in the Kurdish parliament's Green Bloc, was elected to lead the bloc, thus becoming the first woman ever to head a bloc in the Iraqi Kurdistan region's parliament since it was first established in 1992.
"Members of the Green Bloc, during a meeting with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) politburo, unanimously elected Abdullah to lead it in place of deputy Othman Bani Marani," Green Bloc member Khaman Zarrar told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
"The change was to activate the bloc's performance inside parliament," she added.
The Green Bloc, affiliated to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's PUK, has 40 out of a total 111 seats in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan parliament.
The number of seats is the same obtained by the Yellow Bloc of Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). The remaining seats are occupied by other parliamentary blocs.
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