Early voting for members of the security forces, including Peshmerga and the Asayesh, begins September 28, Sherwan Zrar told Rudaw.
“The election campaign will begin on September 11 and the early election for Kurdistan [Region]’s parliamentary election will be held on September 28,” Zrar said.
The commission has also “approved the list of the names of candidates,” he added.
This will come as good news for those candidates who have held off producing expensive campaign materials, fearing the election may be postponed.
Unlike the security forces, traffic police are not eligible for early voting this time because their election records were not submitted to the commission on time, Zrar said.
Barham Salih’s Coalition for Democracy and Justice (CDJ) has announced it will not participate in the election. Other parties like the Change Movement (Gorran) are against the timing of the election, but say they are prepared for the campaign.
It comes just months after parties ran in the Iraqi parliamentary election of May 12, which was fraught with allegations of fraud and has yet to result in a new government in Baghdad.
Kurdish political parties will race for the Kurdish parliament’s 100 seats. Minority groups will contest the remaining 11 reserved for them under the quota system.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)’s Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani also said on Sunday the elections will be held on time.
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