The President of Kurdistan Region is the head of the autonomous region in northern Iraq. They are part of the

Kurdistan Presidency Council Kurdistan Region ( ku, هەرێمی کوردستان, translit=Herêmî Kurdistan; ar, إقليم كردستان), abbr. KRI, is an autonomous region in Iraq comprising the four Kurdish-majority governorates of Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Duhok ...

. The current President of Kurdistan Region is Nechirvan Barzani, who assumed office on 10 June 2019.

1992–2005

After the 1992 parliamentary election resulted in the two main parties, the

Kurdistan Democratic Party The Kurdistan Democratic Party ( ku, Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistanê; پارتی دیموکراتی کوردستان), usually abbreviated as KDP or PDK, is the largest party in Iraqi Kurdistan and the senior partner in the Kurdistan Regional Gov ...

(KDP) and the

Patriotic Union of Kurdistan The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK; ku, یەکێتیی نیشتمانیی کوردستان, translit=Yekîtiya Nîştimanî ya Kurdistanê) is a political party active in Kurdistan Region and the disputed territories in Iraq. The PUK describe ...

(PUK), each holding 50 out of 100 seats, they decided to create a unity government (which was not recognized by the

Ba'athist Iraq Ba'athist Iraq, formally the Iraqi Republic until 6 January 1992 and the Republic of Iraq thereafter, covers the History of Iraq, national history of Iraq between 1968 and 2003 under the rule of the Ba'ath Party (Iraqi-dominated faction), Arab S ...

, led by Saddam Hussein).Galbraith, Peter (2006), ''The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End''; Simon and Schuster. KDP and PUK controlled areas of Kurdistan

KDP and PUK controlled areas of Kurdistan

The unity government soon collapsed and in 1994 a civil war broke out, which lasted until 1998. This resulted in the establishment of two Kurdistan Regional Governments in 1996, a KDP-controlled one in

Erbil Erbil, also called Hawler (, ar, أربيل, Arbīl; syr, ܐܲܪܒܹܝܠ, Arbel), is the capital and most populated city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It lies in the Erbil Governorate. It has an estimated population of around 1,600,000. Hu ...

and a PUK-controlled one in Sulaymaniyah, each with their own President.

2005–present

After an official reconciliation between the KDP and PUK in October 2002,

parliamentary elections A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...

were held on 30 January 2005 and on 14 June 2005 the KDP-leader Masoud Barzani was sworn in by the parliament in as new president and

Kosrat Rasul Ali Kosrat Rasul Ali () is a Kurdish politician and the leader of the Supreme Political Council of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), veteran Peshmerga military leader, former Prime Minister, and former Vice President of the Kurdistan Region. Ear ...

as the new Vice President of Kurdistan Region. In 2009 the system was changed to elect the president and on 25 July 2009 presidential election were held resulting in Barzani's re-election. On 29 October 2017, amidst the

2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict The 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, also known as the Kirkuk crisis, was a conflict in which the Iraqi government retook disputed territories in Iraq which had been held by the Peshmerga since ISIL's Northern Iraq offensive in 2014. The conflic ...

, Barzani announced his intentions to step down as president, effective 1 November. President of Kurdistan Region:

Election results

References

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1992–2005

2005–present

Election results

See also

References