The Kurdistan Democratic Party, led by Masoud Barzani, announced the nomination of party leader Reber Ahmed Khaled for the presidency of the Iraqi republic, after the Federal Supreme Court decided not to approve the nomination of another prominent leader in the party, Hoshyar Zebari.

According to sources in the Democratic Party, the candidate Reber will be the most likely candidate among the other candidates because he has the support of the Triple Alliance, which includes the Sadrist bloc led by Muqtada al-Sadr, the Sunni Sovereignty Alliance (consisting of the Taqaddam bloc led by Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi and the Azm bloc led by Khamis al-Khanjar) and the party Kurdistan Democratic Party.

The candidate, Reber Ahmed, was born in 1968 in Erbil Governorate, and is currently the Minister of Interior of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

He holds a BA in Civil Engineering from Salahaddin University in Erbil in 1997, and a MA in National Security from the Iraqi National Security University in Baghdad in 2007, and holds the rank of major general.

Reber Ahmed Khaled has served as Head of the Joint Security Coordination Department in the Kurdistan Regional Security Council since 2012, Director of News Analysis at the Security Protection Agency in the Region (2005-2012), and Director of Combating Organized Crime in the Defense Department of the Security Protection Foundation (2000-2005).

He was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the Kurdistan Student Union (1993-1997), and was promoted to the rank of an office member in the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1997, and was chosen as a member of the Shander office for the reconstruction of the Kurdistan region of Iraq since 2000.

And Ahmed Khaled is the only survivor among all his family members, who were killed during the Anfal operation, which the forces of the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein are accused of, after the outbreak of an insurgency in the north of the country at the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988, which claimed the lives of hundreds of Kurds.

The Iraqi writer and political researcher Kifah Mahmoud Karim spoke to Al Jazeera Net about the character of Reaper Ahmed Khaled as he knew her for a long time, and said that despite being the only survivor in his family from the Anfal operation, he is tolerant and his motto is "forget the past and let's look at the future," noting that he is a practical and serious person. , is not inclined to slogans and hates mediation and favoritism.

The Kurdistan Democratic Party's nomination of Reaper Ahmed Khaled for the presidency of Iraq comes after the Federal Supreme Court decided on Sunday that the nomination of the other leader in the party, Hoshyar Zebari, was unconstitutional.

And the new candidate for the Democratic Party (31 seats out of 329) will be a major contender for the position along with the current president, Barham Salih, the candidate of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (17 seats) led by Bafel Talabani among 60 candidates, according to the Iraqi parliament after opening the door for submission for the second time, in While there are other candidates, but their chances are lower.

Media reports also talked about the name of an alternative figure as a compromise candidate for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan to take over the post of President of the Republic of Iraq, who is Abdul Latif Rashid.

According to a political custom followed in Iraq since 2006, the Kurds occupy the position of the president of the republic, the Sunnis the head of parliament, and the Shiites the head of the government.

Last week, the Iraqi parliament failed to hold the session devoted to electing a new president, after most of the political blocs boycotted the session as a result of differences over the candidates and also regarding the formation of the next government.

The election of a new president for the country is a necessary step to move forward in forming the next government, according to the country's constitution, following the early parliamentary elections that took place last October.