After months of negotiations, Iraq has a new Head of State: The Kurd Fuad Massum was elected by Parliament in Baghdad as President. This also paves the way for a new government.

Iraq has finally a new head of state. Parliament on Thursday particular the Kurds Fuad Massum president. The deputies of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) received 211 out of 228 valid votes.

Massum is the successor of Jalal Talabani. Under Turkish law, the offices of the President of Parliament, the President and the Prime Minister a Sunni, a Kurd and a Shia must be occupied. The choice of Massum is another step to end the months since sustained in Iraq power vacuum. Just last week given the deputies a new Parliament chief – the Sunnis

Salim al-Dschuburi. But above all, the choice of the government is likely to take even longer because of the controversial Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki insists on a further term.

Iraq is in a political crisis that took the terrorist militia Islamic State for their advance on Baghdad. On Thursday met UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in Baghdad. He wanted to discuss the formation of a new government with Maliki, among other things, the newly elected Parliament President Salim al-Dschaburi and other politicians.

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