PUK Co-President Lahur Sheikh Jangi (File)
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SULAIMANI — Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Co-President
Lahur Sheikh Jangi sent a letter to the party’s General Leadership Council on
Thursday (November 4) reasserting his powers as co-president and reversing a recent
set of decisions taken by the party’s other co-president, Bafel Talabani.
The letter represents a return salvo by Sheikh Jangi in the
ongoing power struggle within the Sulaimani-based party, which has heated up in
recent days.
On Tuesday evening, Sheikh Jangi released a statement criticizing
the direction of the party under Talabani and his brother, Kurdistan Regional
Government (KRG) Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani, citing its poor
performance in the recent parliamentary election.
Talabani responded by signing a letter expelling Sheikh
Jangi, his brother Aram, Ala Talabani, Shadman Mala Hassan, and Zhino Muhammed,
accusing them of violations of the party’s internal laws.
Sheikh Jangi said in his own letter on Thursday that he was
reclaiming the leadership powers that he transferred to Talabani on a temporary
basis in July because his conditions for stepping aside were not met, including
convening the General Leadership Council and forming a committee to investigate
accusations made against him.
In that renewed capacity, he said that he was annulling Talabani’s
decisions over the last few months, including the apparent expulsions, claiming
that they were contrary to the internal by-laws of the PUK.
(NRT Digital Media)
This story was updated at 5:30 p.m. EBL
