 The current Co-Leadership of the PUK consists of Lahur Talabany and Bafel Talabani.Fuad Masum, co-founder of the PUK, was the President of Iraq from 2014 to 2018.It was founded on 22 May 1975 in Iraqi Kurdistan by Adel Murad, Nawshirwan Mustafa, Ali Askari, Fuad Masum, Jalal Talabani and Abdul Razaq Feyli.