Khalil Ibrahim, chairman of the political council of the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) and spokesman for the party spoke about the decision of the Iraqi Federal Court and the removal of the components seat in the Kurdistan Parliament.
"We liked all the points of the Federal Court's decision, except the removal of the components seat; this was neither our demand nor our project," Ibrahim said.
Khalil Ibrahim added "The issue of the components seat in the Kurdistan Parliament has not been handled properly. “However, the issue of the Kurdistan Parliamentary Election Law should have been resolved by us and not fallen into the hands of the Federal Court or any other party.”
The chairman of the KIU Political Council said: “The most important thing for us now is to hold elections".
The Islamic Union won five seats in the last session of the Kurdistan parliamentary elections. he predicts that they will have more seats for the sixth session at least will be 10 seats.
The chairman of the political council of the Islamic Union stressed that The components are free to decide whether to participate in the elections with their own lists, in the form of a coalition, or on the lists of other political parties: “We are open and our demand is that all parties accommodate components.”
"So far, we have experience of forming a coalition with most of the parties for the Kurdistan parliamentary elections, and now preliminary negotiations have begun to form a protest front that we can meet on a common policy and a common electoral program," he said.
Regarding the Federal Court’s decision to send the salaries of Kurdistan Region employees directly from the federal government, he said: "This has nothing to do with the dissolution of the Kurdistan Region because the Kurdistan Region is a constitutional entity and will be strengthened by justice, good governance, and unity,".