The Congress began its proceedings on December 11, 2010, in Erbil, under the slogan (Renewal, Justice, Coexistence) and in the presence of 350 prominent figures, including the President of the Republic of Iraq, Jalal Talabani. During it, President Masoud Barzani awarded the friend of the Kurds, journalist Kevin Robert, the Eternal Barzani Medal. Eight committees were formed to manage the work of the Congress, namely: the Program Committee, the Bylaws Committee, the General Organization Committee, the Finance Committee, the Complaints Committee, the Media Committee, the Peshmerga Committee, and the Professional and Mass Organizations Committee. A condition of 10% was also set for women's membership in the Party's Leadership Council. This was established in the third section of Chapter Twenty-Two of Article 217 of the Program and in Article 17, Paragraph Two of the Internal Regulations. For the first time in the history of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the women's quota was applied at the Thirteenth Congress. It is worth noting that only one woman was elected to the membership of the Central Committee in the Fifth, Ninth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Congresses.
The structure of the Kurdistan Democratic Party according to the Internal Regulations of the Thirteenth Congress was as follows:
Base, Organizational Committee, Regional Committee, Branch Committee, Governorate Leadership, Leadership Council, Political Bureau, Secretary of the Political Bureau, Vice President, and President. The Oversight and Follow-up Committee was also appointed by the Leadership Council and approved by the President.
Two new terms were introduced into the Party's structural organizations. The first is the Base, which was previously called the Cell and the Main Cell, or a combination of both. The second is the Leadership Councils, which until 2018 included only Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, and Kirkuk-Garmian, which were borders that included the activities of the governorates of Kirkuk and Diyala and parts of Sulaymaniyah, while Duhok and Mosul were managed in the old way. Although Duhok was within the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Baghdad governorate was outside this system, Europe and the United States were two branches that remained as they were.
The most interesting institution after this Congress was the Board of Experts, which is appointed by the Leadership Council and which had been established under Article 15 of the Internal Regulations. Given its tasks, this article consists of four paragraphs and a number of points. A similar board had been established in the Internal Regulations in 1993, in the Eleventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party under the name (Shura Council).
The official and recognized institutions of the Party:
1- Organization Office
2- Culture and Media Institution
3- Relations Office
4- Mass and Professional Organizations Authority
5- Election Institution
6- Administration and Finance Office
President Masoud Barzani was unanimously re-elected as President, and Nechirvan Barzani was elected as Vice President. This was followed by the election of the members of the Leadership Council as follows:
2- Sidad Barzani
3- Karim Sinjari
4- Yusuf Barzani
5- Dr. Roj Nouri Shaways
7- Fazel Mirani
8- Nezhat Hali Muhammad
11- Qadir Qachakh
12- Dr. Kamal Kirkuki
13- Salah Dalo
14- Azad Barwari
15- Aras Hasu Mirkan
16- Sirwan Barzani
17- Sarbast Lazgin Abdulrahman, nicknamed Sarbast Sanduri
18- Ali Hussain Ahmed
19- Kaka Amin Mustafa Amin, nicknamed Kaka Min the Carpenter
20- Nouri Hama Ali
21- Dr. Jenar Saad Abdullah
22- Dr. Pishtiwan Sadiq Abdullah
23- Hemin Ahmed Hama Salih, nicknamed Hemin Hawrami
24- Abdulkhaliq Abdul-Salam Mustafa, nicknamed Abdulkhaliq Babiri
25- Ramzi Shaban
26- Fereydun Jwanroyi
27- Al-Zaeem Ali
28- Diyari Hussain Osman, nicknamed Diyari Hussain Beg
29- Ribwar Yalda
30- Dilshad Shihab Haji
31- Jaafar Ibrahim Haji, nicknamed Jaafar Eminki
32- Arif Tayfur
33- Yunis Rozbayani
34- Sarbast Omar Hassan, nicknamed Sarbast Trowanshi
35- Sasan Awni
37- Adham Osman Sheikh Ahmed, nicknamed Adham Barzani
38- Mahmoud Hashim Elias, nicknamed Mahmoud Ezidi
39- Ali Awni Nimat
40- Mahmoud Muhammad
41- Khosrow Abdullah Ismail, nicknamed Khosrow Goran
43- Muhammad Mahmoud Abdullah, nicknamed Muhammad Herki
44- Dr. Ali Tatar Tawfiq
45- Ahmed Adham Abdul-Jabbar, nicknamed Ahmed Kani
46- Ezadin Barwari
47- Safeen Dizayee
48- Najat Ali
49- Shirin Amidi
50- Avin Tahir Ibrahim, nicknamed Avin Haruri
Alternate members of the Leadership Council:
1- Omar Osman Mirksuri
2- Abdullah Ali
3- Ako Jawshin
4- Buland Ismail Jirjis
5- Qadir Qadir
6- Akbar Haidar
8- Dr. Hamid Darbandi
9- Dr. Vian Sabri
Dr. Pirot Ahmed, Head of the Thirteenth Congress Management Committee, delivered the final communiqué of the Congress on Friday, December 17, 2010. After the Leadership Council meeting, the members of the Political Bureau were elected from the comrades whose names are listed below:
2- Fazel Mirani
3- Dr. Roj Nouri Shaways
5- Azad Barwari
6- Dr. Kamal Kirkuki
7- Karim Sinjari
8- Al-Zaeem Ali
9- Mahmoud Muhammad
10- Fereydun Jwanroyi
11- Salah Dalo
12- Ribwar Yalda
13- Jaafar Eminki
14- Kaka Min the Carpenter
15- Ezadin Barwari
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