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Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region votes for new parliament

People show their inked fingers outside a polling station after casting their ballots for the Kurdistan Regional Government's regional parliamentary election in Erbil [Khalid Al-Mousily/Reuters]

Voters in Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region have cast their ballots in delayed parliamentary elections amid disenchantment with political leaders and economic instability.

The elections on Sunday were for 100 members of parliament, who will then pick a speaker, a president and a prime minister for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), which was established in 1992.

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