Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, who was re-elected president by the parliament, asked Al-Maliki to form an administration.
President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, and the US ambassador to Iraq, Christopher Hill, voiced support for the amended version.
He's a Kurd and a member of the Iraqi electoral commission, which organized the historic elections back in January.
It's here that a Kurd named Abdullah Aslan is hard at work rebuilding the roof of a long-abandoned stone hut.
Mr Allawi can rule by decree, provided that all three members of the presidency (a Sunni, a Shia and a Kurd) assent.
Mr Kilicdaroglu had little to say about the Kurdish problem (although he is himself a Kurd, he did not even use the word).
Shiites also accepted a Kurd as president of predominantly Arab Iraq.
Iraqi President Jalal Talibani, a Kurd who's opposed to the death penalty, has refused to sign the execution orders, amid calls from Sunnis to spare Hashim's life.
The president of Iraq, though, Jalal Talabani, who, incidentally, is a Kurd and a rival to Barzani, stepped in to try to finesse the situation and calm the furor.
The appointment of a Kurd, Abdulbasit Sida, who has called for constitutional guarantees for Syria's Kurds, as the SNC's new head, has been shrugged off as a Turkish ploy.
ECONOMIST: Turks fret about Syria, but few of them really want a fight
The arrest of al-Esawi's bodyguards came just hours after President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd who is widely viewed as a stabilizing political force in Iraq, left the country about two weeks after suffering a stroke.
The arrest of Esawi's bodyguards came just hours after President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd who is widely viewed as a stabilizing political force in Iraq, left the country to undergo treatment for cancer in Germany.
But the new parliament was at least able to elect a speaker, Osama al-Nujaifi (pictured above, right), an influential Sunni from the embattled northern city of Mosul, and to re-elect the incumbent president, Jalal Talabani (left), a Kurd.
Unlike his predecessor, an ethnic Turk, Mr Ramazanzadeh, a Shia Kurd, has spent his three years in office diligently promoting Kurds, both Shia and Sunni.
In the basic-law draft being circulated, they want a share of an interim three-man Iraqi presidency comprising a Shia Arab, a Sunni Arab and a Sunni Kurd.
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