Kurdistan24 Obtains Court Documents Rejecting Attempts to Suspend Parliament Decisions
Iraq's Federal Supreme Court rejects two PUK and New Generation requests to suspend Kurdistan Parliament's Nov. 4 decisions, citing legal requirements.
ERBIL (Kurdistan24) - Iraq's Federal Supreme Court on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2026, rejected two requests filed by representatives of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the New Generation Movement seeking urgent injunctions to suspend the decisions of the Kurdistan Parliament's Nov. 4 session, according to two official court documents obtained by Kurdistan24.
The rulings, issued by a judicial panel chaired by Judge Munther Ibrahim Hussein, rejected both applications after determining that they failed to meet the legal requirements for granting temporary injunctions.
The decisions mean that the parliamentary session's outcomes have not been suspended by the federal judiciary. However, the court's rejection of the urgent requests does not constitute a final judgment on the legality of the session itself, which remains subject to separate proceedings.
Two Separate Applications Rejected
The first request, registered under No. 263/Federal/Injunction/2026, was submitted by Asos Ali Ahmed, a PUK member of the Iraqi Parliament.
The application named the Speaker of the Kurdistan Parliament and the head of its administrative office as defendants.
Ahmed requested an injunction suspending the implementation of all decisions and outcomes of the Nov. 4 parliamentary session until the court issued a judgment in Case No. 263/Federal/2026.
That underlying case challenges the parliamentary session, the decisions adopted during it and the bodies established as a result.
The second request, registered under No. 264/Federal/Injunction/2026, was filed by Mohammed Sulaiman Mohammed, a New Generation lawmaker acting in his capacity as the eldest member of the Kurdistan Parliament.
His application sought to suspend the effects, procedures and decisions of the same session pending a ruling in Case No. 264/Federal/2026.
The defendants were the Speaker of the Kurdistan Parliament and the deputy head of its administrative office. Lawyer Ali Kamil Rasul represented both applicants.
Court Explains Legal Grounds
According to the documents obtained by Kurdistan24, the Federal Supreme Court examined the applications under Article 151 of Iraq's amended Civil Procedure Law No. 83 of 1969.
The court identified two requirements for issuing an urgent injunction: the existence of urgency and the need to avoid interfering with the substance of the underlying legal dispute.
After deliberation, the court determined that the applications did not satisfy those requirements.
Consequently, the judges rejected both requests by majority vote, citing Article 94 of Iraq's 2005 Constitution and Article Five, Paragraph Two, of the amended Federal Supreme Court Law No. 30 of 2005.
The decisions rejecting the injunctions were described as final and binding. That finality concerns the interim applications and should not be interpreted as a determination of the separate lawsuits challenging the parliamentary session.
Background to the Parliamentary Dispute
The legal challenges followed the Kurdistan Parliament's Nov. 4 session, during which 52 lawmakers attended and elected the legislature's presidency.
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) lawmaker Vala Farid was elected speaker, Rami Nouri became deputy speaker, and Mona Qahwachi was elected secretary.
The session proceeded despite a boycott by the PUK, New Generation and several other political groups.
The KDP maintained that the proceedings complied with parliamentary law, while the boycotting parties disputed their legitimacy and sought judicial intervention.
The election of the parliamentary presidency was intended to restart legislative activities after prolonged disagreements following the October 2024 elections. However, political negotiations over the formation of the Kurdistan Regional Government's tenth cabinet remain unresolved.
In separate proceedings on Sunday, the Federal Supreme Court also rejected two lawsuits concerning a 1992 KRG decision on the registration of government-owned properties, according to lawyer Ayad Kakaei.
Those cases, numbered 247/Federal/2026 and 251/Federal/2026, concerned property ownership and were unrelated to the parliamentary injunctions.
For the Kurdistan Parliament, Sunday's principal legal development is the refusal to impose the requested temporary suspension, leaving the underlying challenges to the Nov. 4 session awaiting further judicial consideration.