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Nizar Amidi elected Iraq’s president

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Nizar Amidi elected Iraq’s president
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Nizar Amidi was elected Iraq’s president after winning 227 of 249 votes in parliament’s 2nd round on Saturday, becoming the country’s 6th president since 2003, Anadolu reports. Iraqi parliament elected Amidi, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) candidate, as the country’s new president on Saturday, succeeding former President Abdul Latif Rashid. Amidi’s victory came after he secured a majority of votes in the second round of parliamentary voting, following the failure to reach a two-thirds ma

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