The Federal Court will consider two complaints tomorrow regarding ending the Kurdistan Parliament’s session and holding the regional government accountable.
The Federal Court will consider two complaints tomorrow regarding ending the Kurdistan Parliament’s session and holding the regional government accountable.
2026-09-19
Shafaq News – Sulaymaniyah
Ali Hama Saleh, the rapporteur of the Kurdistan Position Movement, announced on Saturday that the Federal Supreme Court (the highest judicial authority in Iraq) is expected to hold a session to consider two complaints, one of which concerns the unconstitutionality of the Kurdistan Parliament in its current session, and the other against the regional government.
Saleh said in a post on social media, “Regarding our complaint about the unconstitutionality of the continuation of this session of the Kurdistan Parliament, the Federal Court addressed (Mohammed Suleiman), the oldest member of the current session, and informed him of the need to appear before it.”
Saleh expressed his hope that Suleiman would attend, “and that he would make his statements in a way that shows that Parliament did not perform its duty in its first session, and that the current session of Parliament should be dissolved.”
As for the second complaint, Saleh said that he “filed it against the (caretaker government) in the Kurdistan Region and its president (Masrour Barzani), the Prime Minister,” as he put it.
Despite the passage of nearly two years since the parliamentary elections in the Kurdistan Region, the tenth government cabinet remains stuck in place amid ongoing political disputes between the two main parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.
The Kurdistan Region Parliament elections, held on October 20, 2024, produced a new political reality that redrawn the balance of power within the parliament, but did not give any party a comfortable majority that would allow it to form a government on its own, which made consensus among the main forces a prerequisite for forming the new government cabinet.
According to the final election results, the Democratic Party won 39 seats, while the National Union came in second with 23 seats, while the New Generation Movement made remarkable progress by winning 15 seats.
The Kurdistan Islamic Union won 7 seats, the National Position won 4 seats, and the Kurdistan Justice Group won 3 seats, while the remaining seats were distributed among other political forces and the quota seats for the components.
These results clearly showed that the Democratic Party maintained its position as the largest political force in the region, but it did not obtain the absolute majority that would enable it to form a government on its own, and the National Union remained the second force capable of influencing the power-sharing equation.
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