“It has been decided to hold the Kurdistan Region’s parliamentary elections between May 19 and May 30, but we have nothing official yet,” an official from Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission’s (IHEC) media team, told Rudaw.
Kurdistan Region's parliamentary elections were initially scheduled for October 2022 but were pushed to November of the following year due to disagreements among the political parties over the election law.
After an Iraqi court ruling against the self-extension of the Kurdistan parliament as a result of the delayed elections, the poll was postponed to February 2024, this time under the supervision of the Iraqi electoral commission which has announced that the Region's leaders should appoint a new date as the vote cannot be held on the schedule date.
According to the source, over two million citizens in the Kurdistan Region are eligible for the vote.
Kurdistan Region’s authorities have come under mounting criticism both domestically and internationally, for failing to hold elections on time.
The Iraqi government late last year allocated nearly 70 billion dinars for the IHEC to supervise the Kurdistan Region’ poll, clearing another hurdle for the controversial vote to take place.
