ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – A high-level delegation from Iraq's ruling Shiite Coordination Framework is set to visit the Kurdistan Region on Monday, with the aim of facilitating an agreement between the Region's ruling parties regarding the post of Iraqi president.

The planned visit comes after a second parliamentary session to elect an Iraqi president was postponed without yielding any results, as the Kurdistan Region's top two parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), have failed to see eye to eye on a unanimous candidate for the post.

The Secretary-General of the Coordination Framework, Abbas Al-Amri, said: "The delegation includes the Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani, the Secretary-General of the Badr Organization Hadi al-Amri, and the head of the Al-Asas Coalition, Hussein al-Mandlawi," the Coordination Framework's Secretary-General Abbas al-Amri told Iraqi state media on Sunday hours after the parliament's session was adjourned.

"The visit aims to find an understanding between the two parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the National Union, on resolving the issue of the presidency of the Republic," Amri added.

The post of Iraqi president is reserved for the country's Kurdish component, per Iraq's informal power-sharing mechanism. The post has traditionally been held by a PUK member.

The top Kurdish parties have yet to come to an agreement regarding the post, Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani told reporters earlier on Sunday, adding that a delegation from the Coordination Framework will visit Erbil and meet with President Masoud Barzani to discuss the presidency and premiership.

The KDP has nominated current Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein, while the PUK has fielded former environment minister and head of its Baghdad office Nizar Amedi. The incumbent President Abdul Latif Rashid, a senior PUK member, is running independently. Lawmaker Muthanna Amin, meanwhile, is representing Kurdish opposition parties in the race.

The Iraqi president post is constitutionally required to be settled by the parliament within 30 days of the new legislature's first session, with the deadline having passed in this case on January 28.

A senior official in the ruling Shiite bloc told The New Region on Saturday that it will not support either of the two Kurdish parties over the other and will only participate in Sunday's session if both the KDP and PUK attend the parliamentary sitting.