Iraqi commission to set new agenda for Kurdish elections: Official
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s electoral commission is set to prepare a new date for the already-delayed Kurdistan Region parliamentary elections and submit it for approval, with discussions ongoing between the commission and the Region, an official from the body said on Wednesday.
The agenda will be submitted to the Council of Commissioners for approval and a date will be set in the upcoming dates for the vote to be discussed with representatives of the Kurdistan Region, announced Muhanad Fadhil Abbas, deputy head for the office of technical affairs at Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC).
The vote was initially scheduled for October 2022, but was pushed to November due to disagreements among the political parties over the election law.
After an Iraqi court ruling against the self-extension of the Kurdistan Region’s parliament as a result of delayed elections, the poll was postponed to February 2024, this time under the supervision of the Iraqi electoral commission.
Abbas said that he asked the head of the commission to set a new schedule of preparations for conducting the Kurdistan Region’s parliamentary elections in 2024.
In a letter sent last week, IHEC informed the Kurdistan Region Presidency that it cannot hold the vote on the schedule date of February 25.
Dawoud Salman, the head of IHEC’s measures and training department, told Rudaw late last year that “there is an issue with the commission’s timetable pertaining to supervising Kurdistan’s parliamentary elections,” adding that once the commission reveals the final results of the latest local poll in Iraq, it will meet again to make changes to the timetable for the Kurdish vote.
The agenda will be submitted to the Council of Commissioners for approval and a date will be set in the upcoming dates for the vote to be discussed with representatives of the Kurdistan Region, announced Muhanad Fadhil Abbas, deputy head for the office of technical affairs at Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC).
The vote was initially scheduled for October 2022, but was pushed to November due to disagreements among the political parties over the election law.
After an Iraqi court ruling against the self-extension of the Kurdistan Region’s parliament as a result of delayed elections, the poll was postponed to February 2024, this time under the supervision of the Iraqi electoral commission.
Abbas said that he asked the head of the commission to set a new schedule of preparations for conducting the Kurdistan Region’s parliamentary elections in 2024.
In a letter sent last week, IHEC informed the Kurdistan Region Presidency that it cannot hold the vote on the schedule date of February 25.
Dawoud Salman, the head of IHEC’s measures and training department, told Rudaw late last year that “there is an issue with the commission’s timetable pertaining to supervising Kurdistan’s parliamentary elections,” adding that once the commission reveals the final results of the latest local poll in Iraq, it will meet again to make changes to the timetable for the Kurdish vote.