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President of Iraq
The president of the Republic of Iraq is the head of state of Iraq. Since the mid-2000s, the presidency is primarily a symbolic office, as the position does not possess significant power within the country according to the constitution adopted in October 2005.
Due to the Muhasasah political system informally adopted since the creation of the new Iraqi federal state, the office is held by a Kurd by convention, although this is not an official requirement. All presidents since 2005 have been members of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party.
In the 2026 Iraqi presidential election held on 11 April 2026, the Iraqi parliament voted Nizar Amedi as the new president of Iraq.
According to Article 61 of the Iraqi Constitution, the President is elected through a process of indirect suffrage; that is, an election held by the Council of Representatives, instead of popular mandate.
According to Article 73 of the Iraqi Constitution, the powers of the president are:
The Iraqi constitution, in Article 68, specifies a number of conditions that a candidate for the presidential office must:
In the early days of the Iraqi Republic in 1958, neither the head of the Sovereign Council, Muhammad Najib al-Rubaie, nor the Prime Minister, Abdul Karim Qassem, took any palace to be an official republican palace for the state. Al-Rubaie stayed in his personal home before 14 July 1958. Qassem also remained in his home before the revolution, while his office at the Ministry of Defense was taken as his official office in his capacity as prime minister. Sometimes he slept there.
With Abd al-Salam's accession to power in 1963, he focused his attention on the palace that was being built during the reign of King Faisal II and in which he was to marry later. Abd al-Salam took care of the palace and completed it in 1965.
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President of Iraq
The president of the Republic of Iraq is the head of state of Iraq. Since the mid-2000s, the presidency is primarily a symbolic office, as the position does not possess significant power within the country according to the constitution adopted in October 2005.
Due to the Muhasasah political system informally adopted since the creation of the new Iraqi federal state, the office is held by a Kurd by convention, although this is not an official requirement. All presidents since 2005 have been members of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party.
In the 2026 Iraqi presidential election held on 11 April 2026, the Iraqi parliament voted Nizar Amedi as the new president of Iraq.
According to Article 61 of the Iraqi Constitution, the President is elected through a process of indirect suffrage; that is, an election held by the Council of Representatives, instead of popular mandate.
According to Article 73 of the Iraqi Constitution, the powers of the president are:
The Iraqi constitution, in Article 68, specifies a number of conditions that a candidate for the presidential office must:
In the early days of the Iraqi Republic in 1958, neither the head of the Sovereign Council, Muhammad Najib al-Rubaie, nor the Prime Minister, Abdul Karim Qassem, took any palace to be an official republican palace for the state. Al-Rubaie stayed in his personal home before 14 July 1958. Qassem also remained in his home before the revolution, while his office at the Ministry of Defense was taken as his official office in his capacity as prime minister. Sometimes he slept there.
With Abd al-Salam's accession to power in 1963, he focused his attention on the palace that was being built during the reign of King Faisal II and in which he was to marry later. Abd al-Salam took care of the palace and completed it in 1965.