Vice President of Kurdistan Region | |
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Style | His Excellency |
Appointer | Vote in the Kurdistan Region Parliament |
Term length | Four years, renewable once |
Inaugural holder | Kosrat Rasul Ali |
Formation | 14 June 2005 |
Website |
presidency |
The vice president of Kurdistan Region is the deputy head of the autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq. They are part of the Kurdistan Presidency Council. [1] The vice presidents assist the president in his or her duties and in the president's absence is the acting president. [2]
On 14 June 2005 Masoud Barzani was sworn in by the Kurdistan Region Parliament as new president. [3] Kurdistan National Assembly elected Kosrat Rasul Ali as the vice president of the Kurdistan Region. [2]
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political party | ||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||
1 |
Kosrat Rasul Ali (born 1952) |
14 June 2005 | 1 November 2017 | 12 years, 140 days | Patriotic Union of Kurdistan [2] | |
2 |
Jaafar Sheikh Mustafa (born 1950) |
8 September 2019 [4] | Incumbent | 4 years, 235 days | Patriotic Union of Kurdistan [5] [6] | |
3 |
Mustafa Said Qadir (born 1958) |
Gorran Movement [7] [8] |