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Parliament adopted a revised version last month which puts off a decision on
"The presidency council has adopted the provincial election law," said the official, who is a member of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party.
The council, which consists of President Jalal Talabani and his two vice presidents, Adel Abdul-Mehdi and Tareq al-Hashemi, has the power to veto laws. Talabani is a Kurd, Abdul-Mehdi is a Shi'ite Arab and Hashemi is a Sunni Arab, representing the country's three main ethnic and sectarian groups.
 Talabani used his veto power to reject a previous version of the bill in July after Kurds, angry over the
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Talabani, Abdul-Mehdi, Hashemi and other top Iraqi officials met on Friday in Sulaimaniya province and were expected to announce the official ratification of the law later on Friday.
The council’s stamp of approval means
The presidency council called on MPs to reinstate the clause, the official said.
The new law excludes the disputed northern oil
The elections, to be held early next year in 14 of