Talaban, Talabani, who cares.................
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Iraq Parliament Elects Jalal Talabani as President (Update5)
April 6 (Bloomberg) -- Iraq's National Assembly today named Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as the country's first democratically elected president in more than 50 years, breaking a two-month deadlock on forming a new government.
The appointment resolves differences over power sharing between the United Iraqi Alliance, which won the most seats in the Jan. 30 vote, and the second-placed Kurdish Alliance. Shiite Interim Finance Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi and former Sunni President Sheik Ghazi al-Yawar were chosen as Talabani's two deputies.
``This is the new Iraq where no sect or minority controls the whole country and where all the people are unified,'' Speaker of the House and Interim Industry Minister Hajem al-Hassani said in a live broadcast of the session aired by al-Jazeera.