PM Barzani congratulates Kurdistan Islamic Movement leader on reelection as party leader

Dler S. Mohammed 2022/02/06 15:10

Kurdistan Region PM Masrour Barzani (left) and Erfan Abdul Aziz, leader of the Kurdistan Islamic Movement (KIM). (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan Masrour Barzani Erfan Abdul Aziz Kurdistan Islamic Movement KIM KDP

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani on Sunday congratulated Erfan Abdul Aziz for being re-elected as leader of the Kurdistan Islamic Movement (KIM).

In a phone call, the prime minister congratulated Abdul Aziz on his re-election as the movement's leader during the party's 12th congress held on Saturday.

Barzani wished success for the movement in its endeavors to strengthen cooperation among the political parties and further serve the people and the country.

On behalf of himself and the KIM, Abdul Aziz thanked the prime minister for the phone call.

On Saturday, the KIM held its 12th congress in Erbil, during which the party has re-elected Abdul Aziz as its leader.

The Kurdistan Islamic Movement is an Islamist group founded in 1987 by Shaykh Uthman Abd-Aziz and several other Sunni mullahs who were all part of the non-political "Union of Religious Scholars."

In the 1992 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, the party received 5.1% of the vote, becoming the third-largest in the autonomous region after the PUK and KDP.

Presently, the party does not have any seats in the Kurdistan Parliament or the Iraqi Council of Representatives.