Talabani seeks Iraqi presidency

Jalal Talabani, the leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), made his announcement after meeting with the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Massud Barzani.
“I am the candidate for the Kurdish democratic list for one of the two posts of responsibility,” Talabani said after the meeting.
Following last Sunday’s Iraqi general election, in which the country’s two main Kurdish groups won a more than two thirds majority in Northern Iraq, the KDP-PUK alliance expect to hold at least a quarter of the seats in the new parliament.