President of the Kurdistan Region
Head of state of the Kurdistan Region
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The president of the Kurdistan Region is the head of state of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq. They are part of the Kurdistan Presidency Council[1] and commander-in-chief of the Peshmerga.[2] The current president of Kurdistan Region is Nechirvan Barzani, who assumed office on 10 June 2019.[3]
Masoud Barzani (de jure)
| President of the Kurdistan Region | |
|---|---|
Seal of the President | |
 Flag of the President | |
| Style | His Excellency |
| Appointer | elected in KRG parliament (if possible) |
| Term length | Four years, renewable once |
| Inaugural holder | Jalal Talabani (de facto) Masoud Barzani (de jure) |
| Formation | 4 July 1992 (de facto) 14 June 2005 (de jure) |
| Deputy | Vice President of Kurdistan Region |
| Website | presidency |
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History
After the results of the 1992 parliamentary election, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) with both parties holding 50 out of 100 seats, chose to create a unity government unrecognized by Ba'athist Iraq.[4]
The unity government collapsed in 1994 and caused the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War to break out that ended in 1998. This resulted in the establishment of two Kurdistan Regional Governments, a KDP-controlled one in Erbil and a PUK-controlled one in Sulaymaniyah, each with their own president.[4]
After an official reconciliation between the KDP and PUK in October 2002,[5] parliamentary elections were then 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 as the new vice president.[6] In 2009, the system was then changed to elect the president and on 25 July 2009 presidential elections were held resulting in Barzani's re-election.[7] On 29 October 2017, amidst the 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, Barzani announced his intentions to step down as president on November 1st.[8]
List of presidents
President of the PUK-run Kurdistan Regional Government
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| 1 |  |
Jalal Talabani (1933–2017) |
4 July 1992 | 6 April 2005 | 12 years, 276 days | Patriotic Union of Kurdistan |
President of the KDP-run Kurdistan Regional Government
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| 1 |  |
Masoud Barzani (born 1946) |
19
May 1992 |
14 June 2005 | 13 years,
26 days |
Kurdistan Democratic Party |
President of the Kurdistan Region
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
| 1 |  |
Masoud Barzani (born 1946) |
14 June 2005 | 1 November 2017 | 12 years, 140 days | Kurdistan Democratic Party |
| 2 |  |
Nechirvan Barzani (born 1966) |
10 June 2019 | Incumbent | 6 years, 335 days(Term Expired in October 2024) | Kurdistan Democratic Party |
Timeline
Election results
2009 Kurdistan Region presidential election
| Candidate | Popular votes | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Massoud Barzani | 1,266,397 | 69.6 |
| Kamal Mirawdily | 460,323 | 25.3 |
| Halow Ibrahim Ahmed | 63,377 | 3.5 |
| Ahmed Mohammed Rasul | 18,890 | 1.4 |
| Hussein Garmiyani | 10,665 | 0.6 |
| Total | 1,819,652 | 100% |