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Negotiations between ruling Sunnis with the Hadbaa Party in Iraq's Mosul province and Kurdish lawmakers ended in a bitter stalemate, lawmakers said.
The Sunni-led Hadbaa list won a surprising victory in Ninawa in the January provincial elections, trouncing their Kurdish counterparts by taking 19 of the 37 council seats and effective control over the government.
Kurdish lawmakers boycotted the provincial government when Hadbaa refused to allow Kurds to take any provincial Cabinet seats.
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