By: The Hawler Tribune

It is expected that the new Kurdish regional government to be formed next week after the elections were held on July 25th 2009.

The government has not been formed so far due to a dispute over the government posts between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of Massoud Barzani, Kurdish Regional President, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), head by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

“The new cabinet of the government will be announced next week, “said Sozan Khala Shihab, head of the KDP-PUK list in the parliament, to Aswat-al-Iraq news agency.

 The forthcoming government is made up of 19 ministries, each of the KDP and PUK heading 6 ministries and the 7 ministries left will be allocated for smaller parties and minorities. 

The new cabinet is expected to be a more transparent and effective one, as it will face a viable opposition, which has got one third of the parliament seats for the first time in eighteen years.