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In Masoud Barzani’s book “For History”

After 2005, election laws were amended in such a way, which was resulted in decreasing the Kurdistan region seats. So far, an Iraqi census has not been held because of different reasons, even though it was decided to be held.
Many times, we have given up on our rights and participated in the political process on the Americans' promises. But did not keep their promises.
The sovereign post of the president was for Kurds, In the first presidential term after falling the previous regime, Mam Jalal became the president. For the second term in 2010, the Americans did not want Kurds to retake the post. In 2010, Ayad Allawi was the biggest winner of the election, but the USA and Iran did not let him become the prime minister because of various excuses. The Americans were trying to choose a Sunni character for the president and the Parliaments speaker for Kurds.
When the Americans discussed this matter with me, I asked them:
Do you mean that you want to remove Mam Jalal or to take back the presidency post from Kurd at all?
They said: We mean both!
I replied: The presidency is for Kurds, and Mam Jalal must become president again, and it cannot be like that both prime minister and president for Arabs. That was how Jalal Talabani became the president for the second term.
Many times, the Americans were not on the right path in reading the Iraqi's political equations, and if they would make any mistakes every time the Kurds had to pay the price and give up on their rights.
During the referendum, we saw that the biggest reason for the Americans to oppose the referendum was because they thought the referendum would make Abadi, the prime minister weak. If the referendum would not be held Abadi would be strong and would kick Iran out of the Iraqis political game. The Americans were not right in that perspective. And they wanted for the sake of a person, the Kurds surrender their rights.
Page 50-51 from the book (For History)
Written by Masoud Barzani