Ninewa Fraternal List for provincial elections announced

Ninewa-List NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: The deputy governor of the Ninewa province on Monday said that the Ninewa Fraternal List which will take part in the next provincial council elections was announced. “The Ninewa Fraternal List, which includes seven parties; the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Islamic Union of Kurdistan, Kurdistan Communist Party, Iraqi Communist Party, the Assyrian Party, and Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party, was announced,” Khisro Kouran told IraqiNews.com. “The announcement came during a conference held near Suwaifa village in northeastern Mosul, attended by Muslims and Christian clerics and Yazidis as well as a number of personalities,” he also said. For his part, the first deputy chairman of the Ninewa provincial council and the head of the Fraternal List announced the list’s agenda which includes; rule of law, compensating damaged people and emigrants, supporting the health work, and activating the industrial movement. The provincial council has 37 seats, according to the provincial council elections law approved last September. Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. The original city of Mosul stands on the west bank of the Tigris River, opposite the ancient biblical city of Nineveh on the east bank, but the metropolitan area has now grown to encompass substantial areas on both banks, with five bridges linking the two sides. Despite having an amount of Kurdish population, it does not form part of the area controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government Kurdistan RegionG). There are different communities in Mosul like Christians, Shiites and Kurds along with a Sunni majority. The fabric Muslin, long manufactured here, is named for this city. Another historically important product of the area is Mosul marble. The city is also a historic center for the Nestorian Christianity of the Assyrians, containing the tombs of several Old Testament prophets such as Jonah, Yunus in Arabic, and Nahum. SH (S)/SR 1