{"id":125283,"date":"2022-11-14T11:55:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T06:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=125283"},"modified":"2022-11-14T11:55:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T06:25:22","slug":"abdul-latif-rashid-has-been-elected-as-the-new-president-of-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/abdul-latif-rashid-has-been-elected-as-the-new-president-of-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdul Latif Rashid has been elected as the new president of Iraq."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Abdul Latif Rashid has been elected as the new president of Iraq. :<\/strong> Rashid replaced Barham Saleh as head of state after two rounds of votes in parliament on 13 October. Mohammed Shia al-Sudani was named as prime minister-designate. Al-Sudani replaces caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi. Al-Sudani will now have 30 days to form a government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-november-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">November 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><br><br>In an October 2021 parliamentary vote, influential Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr emerged as the biggest winner. He failed to form the government. Rashid hails from Sulaimaniyah, a major city in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern&nbsp;Iraq. Under Iraq\u2019s power-sharing system, the premiership falls under Shia blocs and the speaker of parliament is a Sunni. The presidency is reserved for Kurdish groups to nominate.<br><br><strong>Iraq:<\/strong><br><br>It is a country in Western Asia bordered by Turkey, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Persian Gulf.<br><br>Capital of Iraq: Baghdad<br><br>Type of government: Federal parliamentary republic<br><br>Currency of Iraq: Iraqi Dinar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Latif Rashid has been elected as the new president of Iraq. : Rashid replaced Barham Saleh as head of state after two rounds of votes in parliament on 13 October. Mohammed Shia al-Sudani was named as prime minister-designate. Al-Sudani replaces caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi. Al-Sudani will now have 30 days to form a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":125284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4982],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-125283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-november-2022","tag-international-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125285,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125283\/revisions\/125285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}