Baghdad The Kurdistan Islamic Union parliamentary bloc has revealed its position on holding the elections scheduled for next October.
The head of the bloc, MP Jamal Kougar, said, in a statement to the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA), that “all the political forces that claim they want to hold early elections, they do not want elections, and all parties have retracted their previous positions in which they promoted support for early elections.” He pointed out: “The current security situation is the best evidence of that after the escalation of violence and assassinations.”
He added, “With such indicators and data, we are going to postpone the elections sooner or later,” noting that “the immediate circumstances are not conducive to holding early and fair elections, because the technical and logistical mechanisms that led to the falsification of the results of the previous elections 2018, will repeat themselves in the next elections.”
On the possibility of amending the new election law or dissolving the parliament before the election date, he explained that “there are objections to the new law and only large parties benefit from it, and therefore these parties do not agree to dissolve parliament and do not want early elections, because they will not be able to obtain the same number of seats that they have it now .”
On December 16, the Presidency of the House of Representatives approved a parliamentary request, accompanied by the signatures of 75 MPs from different blocs, to submit a proposal to amend the House of Representatives election law, and decided to refer it to the Parliamentary Legal Committee to mature the legal drafting.
The House of Representatives voted, in its evening session at the end of last March, to dissolve Parliament on October 7, 2021, with the elections to be held on time on the tenth of the same month.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency