{"id":164270,"date":"2026-04-15T16:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/?p=164270"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:47:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:47:47","slug":"iraq-parliament-elects-nizar-amedi-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/iraq-parliament-elects-nizar-amedi-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq parliament elects Nizar Amedi as president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq\u2019s parliament has elected Nizar Amedi as the country\u2019s new president, ending a political deadlock that had paralysed government formation.<br \/>\nAmedi was nominated by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) with secure 227 votes in a second round of voting on Saturday. He comfortably defeated independent candidate Muthanna Amin Nader, who received 15 votes.<br \/>\nSpeaking to parliament after the vote, Amedi acknowledged the weight of what lies ahead. \u201cI am fully aware of the scale of challenges facing our country,\u201d he said, pledging to work alongside all three branches of government, and committing to the principle of \u201cIraq First\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq\u2019s parliament has elected Nizar Amedi as the country\u2019s new president, ending a political deadlock that had paralysed government formation. Amedi was nominated by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) with secure 227 votes in a second round of voting on Saturday. He comfortably defeated independent candidate Muthanna Amin Nader, who received 15 votes. Speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10916],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164271,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164270\/revisions\/164271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/media\/164106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zamanturkmenistan.com.tm\/%77%70%2d%6a%73%6f%6e\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}