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 by AFP Staff Writers Baghdad (AFP) March 15, 2022
The Iraqi parliament on Tuesday scheduled a March 26 session for deputies to hold a delayed vote on the country's president. Parliament also released a final list of 40 candidates for the post, a largely ceremonial role reserved for the Kurds. Among the frontrunners are Barham Saleh, the incumbent and member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, and Rebar Ahmed of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the PUK's rival. Lack of a quorum and legal issues have held up the contest, adding to war-scarred Iraq's political uncertainty because the president has to name a prime minister backed by the largest bloc in parliament. On February 13, the supreme court ruled out a bid by veteran politician Hoshyar Zebari backed by the KDP to run, after a complaint filed against him over years-old corruption charges. Iraqi politics were thrown further into turmoil following the October 2021 general elections, which were marred by a record-low turnout, post-election threats and violence, and a delay of several months until final results were confirmed. Intense negotiations among political groups have since failed to form a majority parliamentary coalition to appoint a new prime minister to succeed Mustafa al-Kadhemi. The largest political bloc led by firebrand Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, had backed Zebari for the presidency. Tensions rose Sunday with Iranian missile strikes on Arbil, capital of an autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. Tehran said the attack targeted Israeli sites, but Kurdish authorities denied any such presence.
Music icon Caetano Veloso urges Brazil to stop Bolsonaro Bras�lia (AFP) March 10, 2022 Singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso, a living legend of Brazilian music, was jailed and exiled by his country's military dictatorship in the 1960s. President Jair Bolsonaro's government is doing things that are even worse, he said Wednesday as he led a protest against its environmental policies. Veloso, 79, led a rally that drew thousands of people to the seat of power in Brasilia to condemn the far-right president's moves to pass a series of bills activists say would accelerate the surging destruc ... read more
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