{"id":94435,"date":"2026-05-02T16:23:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/94435\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T16:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:23:19","slug":"kdp-aims-key-portfolios-in-iraq-government-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/94435\/","title":{"rendered":"KDP aims key portfolios in Iraq government talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-02T15:02:05+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Erbil<\/p>\n<p>The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is pushing to retain<br \/>\nkey ministries in Iraq\u2019s next government, including foreign affairs and<br \/>\nconstruction and housing, as coalition talks over cabinet posts continue, a KDP<br \/>\nlawmaker told Shafaq News on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Avesta Mam Yahya expressed optimism about Prime<br \/>\nMinister-designate Ali Al-Zaidi\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Kurdistan\/PM-designate-al-Zaidi-meets-President-Barzani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">visit<\/a> to the Kurdistan Region, adding that<br \/>\nthe formation of the next government should be based on consensus and national<br \/>\npartnership, as the KDP \u2014having secured more than one million <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Kurdistan\/Million-Vote-Moment-What-the-KDP-s-surge-means-for-Kurdistan-and-Baghdad?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">votes<\/a> in the<br \/>\nrecent parliamentary elections\u2014 seeks representation that reflects its<br \/>\nelectoral weight and political standing.<\/p>\n<p>She indicated that the party is also aiming for a broader<br \/>\nrole across executive institutions in line with its electoral performance.<\/p>\n<p>The KDP won 26 seats in the 329-member parliament in the<br \/>\nNovember 11, 2025, election, according to official <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/IHEC-publishes-final-results-of-Iraq-s-2025-parliamentary-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">results<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-02T15:02:05+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Erbil The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is pushing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,94,3272,18897,33300,33301],"class_list":{"0":"post-94435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-iraq","10":"tag-iraqi-government","11":"tag-kdp","12":"tag-kdp-aims-key-portfolios-in-iraq-government-talks","13":"tag-portfolio"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116505910031411612","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}