Iraq's Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi arrived in Erbil on Monday, accompanied by the candidate for the prime minister post, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, and Head of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) Falih al-Fayyadh.
The delegation held talks with Head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Masoud Barzani in a bid to reach an agreement on the disputed presidential candidate between the two main Kurdish parties, the KDP and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).
