Iraqi Turkmen Front participates in Kurdistan Region parliamentary elections

ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – The Iraqi Turkmen Front announced on Sunday that it would participate in the parliamentary elections of the Kurdistan Region. It also urged the Turkmen community in the region to exercise their constitutional right by actively participating in the process.

This came after most Christian and Turkmen political parties decided to boycott the Kurdistan Region parliamentary elections.

The boycott is due to an Iraqi Federal Supreme Court ruling on Feb. 21, which removed quota seats from the Kurdistan Region Parliament.

As per Article 36 of the Kurdistan Parliamentary Election Law, five seats were reserved for Chaldeans, and Assyrians, one for Armenians and five for Turkmens, but the Federal Supreme Court of Iraq annulled the 11 seats on Feb. 21.

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on March 3, set June 10 for parliamentary elections.

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 Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission, previously told Kurdistan24 that there are 3.6 million eligible voters in the Kurdistan Region.