SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region - The head of the Change Movement (Gorran), Nawshirwan Mustafa, has announced he is ready to step down from his post, a party source told Rudaw.
He said that Mustafa plans to leave his post once internal party elections that began a few days ago have ended.
“Mr Mustafa believes that Gorran has now reached the shore of safety and that it is time the group’s MPs did their job as genuine representatives of the people,” the party official said on condition of anonymity.
Mustafa, one of the founders of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), broke off from the party in 2009 and formed Gorran, which became the Kurdistan Region’s opposition group. It went on to win the second-largest number of votes in the 2013 parliamentary elections.
The Gorran official said that Mustafa intends to leave his post to introduce a system of peaceful handover of authority within the party.
“This is Mr. Mustafa’s own initiative and his proposal may not necessarily be accepted by the party,” said the Gorran source.
Gorran is part of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and holds a number of ministerial posts, chief among them the Ministry of Peshmerga.
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