Kurdistan Region parliament seats reduced to 100 by the Iraqi federal Supreme Court

ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – The Federal Supreme Court of Iraq, on Wednesday, decided to partition the Kurdistan Region into four electoral constituencies and decrease the Kurdistan Region parliament seats to 100.

The Iraqi Federal Supreme Court held a meeting to address complaints filed against civil servants' salaries in the Kurdistan Region and the law regarding Kurdistan parliamentary elections.

The Court ruled that in place of the Independent High Electoral and Referendum Commission of the Kurdistan Region, the Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) shall conduct and supervise the sixth round of the Kurdistan Parliamentary Elections.

It also ruled that the 11 quota seats were “unconstitutional and should be abolished.”

Meanwhile, the Federal Court decided that the distribution of public revenues and the salaries of civil servants in the Kurdistan Region should be equal in accordance with Articles 116 and 117 of the Iraqi Constitution.

The Iraqi government should commit to paying the salaries of the Kurdistan Region civil servants, and no loans should be provided to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to distribute salaries, per the court’s rule.

Every four years, Kurdistan Region parliamentary elections are held to elect the 111 members. The election was first held in 1992 and the most recent election was held in 2018.

Dawid Salman, the Director of the IHEC, previously told Kurdistan24 that there are 3.6 million eligible voters in the Kurdistan Region.