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The semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq has set a new date to hold parliamentary elections on Oct. 20, following a repeated delay, the regional presidency said in a statement on ...
On 3 August, Muqtada al-Sadr called for snap elections. [23] On 29 August, Sadr announced via a tweet his retirement from political life. Later that day, his supporters stormed the presidential palace and armed clashes inside the Green Zone ensued, resulting in the deaths of at least 15 protesters. [24] The Iraqi Army announced a nationwide curfew.
Rebar Ahmed Khalid Barzani (born 1 July 1968) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician, interior minister of Iraqi Kurdistan, and a candidate for president of Iraq in 2022 after 2021 Iraqi parliamentary election. [1] [2] and on 13 October 2022, he withdrew his candidacy for the position. [3]
This article lists political parties in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq represented in the Kurdistan Region Parliament, their ideologies, votes in the latest election, number of MPs, and leaders. A second part shows parties not represented in the parliament. The list is updated based on the 2024 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election.
After the 1992 parliamentary election resulted in the two main parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), each holding 50 out of 100 seats, they decided to create a unity government (which was not recognized by the Ba'athist Iraq, led by Saddam Hussein). [3] Kurdistan Region after the 1998 cease-fire.
Nechirvan Barzani was born in 1966 in Barzan, Kurdistan Region.The name Nêçîrvan means hunter.Barzani's surname originates from his birthplace of Barzan.He is the grandson of Mustafa Barzani, a legendary Kurdish leader who led the Kurdish Revolution and armed resistance against the regimes of Iraq and was also the founder of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).
As a result, the 2021 parliamentary elections were held using single non-transferable vote in 83 multi-member constituencies. [3] The distribution of electoral districts in each governorate relies on the number of quota seats for women multiplied by three or five seats for the electoral district depending on the governate's population.
The party boycotted the 2018 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election [6] and failed to win a seat in the 2021 Iraqi parliamentary election. [7]In December 2022, the party went through a crisis, when a group claiming to be part of the leadership spoke to the press, announcing they had removed Aram Qadir from the position as party leader and stripped him of his membership, arguing that the party ...