Iraq’s election commission has announced the re-election of Massud Barzani as the regional president of Kurdistan with the majority of the votes. According to IRIB, official results showed on Wednesday evening that Massud Barzani had won 69.6 percent of the presidential vote in the weekend elections.
Barzani’s nearest challenger university professor Kamal Miraudly came in second with 25.35 percent of the vote.
The official results also revealed that Kurdistan’s two-party ruling alliance -Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) — had won 57 percent of the vote in the regional elections.
Almost 80 percent of the region’s 2.5 million eligible voters cast their vote in the region’s second presidential and parliamentary elections since the US invasion of the country in 2003.