On December 11, 2010, with the slogan (Renewal, Justice, Coexistence) in Erbil and at the Martyr Sami Abdulrahman Park with the presence of 350 personalities, including Jalal Talabani, President of the Federal Republic of Iraq, it began its work and President Masoud Barzani gave the Immortal Barzani medal to the Kurdish-friendly journalist Gwen Roberts, 8 committees were established to manage the congress's work, including the Program Committee, Regulations Committee, General Organization Committee, Financial Committee, Grievances Committee, Media Committee, Peshmerga Committee and Professional and Mass Organizations Committee, in the congress a 10 percent quota was set for women's membership in the KDP leadership council, this was included in the third point of section 22 of point 217 of the Program and point 17, paragraph 2, point 2 of the Bylaws, also in the history of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) for the first time the women's quota was implemented in the 13th congress, it is worth mentioning that in the fifth, ninth, eleventh and twelfth congresses only one woman was elected as a member of the Central Committee.
The organization of the structure of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, according to the bylaws of the 13th congress, was as follows:
Base, Organizational Committee, District Committee, Branch Committee, Provincial Leadership Council, Leadership Council, Political Bureau, Secretary of the Political Bureau, Deputy President and President, also supervisory and monitoring boards were appointed by the leadership council and approved by the president.
In this congress, two new terms were defined within the structure of the KDP, the first is base, which was previously called cell and main cell, or a combination of both and the second was Leadership Councils which until the Year 2018 only in Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Kirkuk, Garmian, which included the border of the activities of Kirkuk, Diyala and some areas of Sulaymaniyah, Duhok and Mosul were still managed in the old way for an unknown reason, although Duhok was within the Kurdistan Region, Baghdad was outside and Europe and America which had two branches remained as they were.
The most interesting institution in this KDP congress was the Council of Experts, which are appointed by the Leadership Council and was implemented according to point 15 of the bylaws, because of this and because of the importance of its duties, this article consists of four paragraphs and several points, as it has been said before, such as this council was recorded in the bylaws in 1993 in the eleventh congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified, under the name of the Advisory Council.
Recognized and official institutions of the KDP:1. Organization Bureau
2. Culture and Media Institution
3. Relations Bureau
4. Board of Mass and Professional Organizations
5. Election Agency
6. Administrative and Financial Bureau
In the congress, President Masoud Barzani was elected president by the consensus of the congress representatives and Nechirvan Barzani was elected as deputy president, then the members of the Leadership Council were elected as follows:
2. Sidad Barzani
3. Karim Shangali
4. Yousif Barzani
5. Roj Nuri Shawes
7. Fazel Mirani
8. Nezhet Hali Mohammed
9. Nawzad Hadi Mawlod
11. Qadir Qachax
12. Dr. Kemal Kirkuki
13. Salah Delo
14. Azad Barwari
15. Aras Huso Mirxan
16. Sirwan Barzani
17. Sarbast Lazgin Abdulrahman
18. Ali Husein Ahmed
19. Kakemin Nejar
20. Nuri Heme Ali
21. Dr. Chinar Saad Abdullah
23. Hemin Hawrami
24. Abdulxaliq Abdulselam Babiri
25. Ramzi Sha'ban
26. Fraydun Jiwanroyi
27. Ze'im Ali
28. Diyari Husein Osman Hema Rez
29. Rebwar Yalda Tirxan
30. Dilshad Shahab Haji Mohammed
31. Cafer Ibrahim Haji, known as Cefer Eminki
32. Arif Tayfur
33. Yunis Mohammed Selim Rojbeyani
34. Sarbast Omer Hassan, also known as Sarbast Tirwanshi
35. Sasan Awni
36. Edhem Osman Sheikh Ahmed, known as Edhem Barzani
37. Mahmud Hashim Ilyas, known as Mahmude Ezdi
38. Ali Awni
39. Mahmud Mohammed
40. Xesrew Abdullah Ismail, known as Xesrew Goran
41. Abdulmuheymen Barzani
42. Muhammad Mahmud Abdullah, also known as Muhammad Harki
43. Dr. Ali Teter Nerwayi
44. Ahmed Adham Abduljabbar, also known as Ahmed Kani
45. Izzadin Barwari
46. Safin Dizayee
47. Nejat Ali
48. Shirin Amedi
49. Evin Tahir Ibrahim, known as Evin Hiruri
50. Nazenin Muhammad Weso.
Substitute members of the Leadership Council:
2. Abdullah Ali
3. Ako Chawshin
5. Qadir Qadir
6. Akbar Haydar
7. Serbast Babiri
8. Dr. Hamid Derbandi
9. Dr. Viyan Sabri.
On Friday, 17.12.2010, the message concluding the congress was read by Dr. Pirot Ahmed, Head of the 13th Congress Presidency Committee; after the meeting of the Leadership Council, the members of the Political Bureau were elected from these comrades:
2. Fazel Mirani
3. Dr. Roj Nuri Shaways
5. Azad Barwari
6. Dr. Kamal Kirkuki
8. Zaim Ali
9. Mahmoud Muhammad
10. Fereydun Juwanroyi
11. Salah Delo
12. Rebwar Yelda
13. Jafar Eminki
14. Kakamin Nejar
15. Izzadin Barwari.
Source:- History of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Congress and Conference (Program and Internal Regulations), Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia, volume 2, (Erbil - Roxana Printing House - 2021).
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