Polls in northern Iraq Kurdish Regional Government set for February 2024

Voters head to polling stations to cast their vote for the Iraqi parliamentary election on May 12, 2018 in Erbil, Iraq. [Younes Mohammed/Getty Images]

Parliamentary elections in the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) of northern Iraq are set for February next year, the presidential office announced on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports.

The parliamentary elections will be held on 25 February, 2024, it said in a statement.

Parliamentary elections in the KRG, which are supposed to take place every four years, were last held in September 2018.

Originally scheduled for 1 October of last year, the KRG parliamentary elections were postponed by almost a year to 18 November, 2023.

However, due to ongoing disagreements between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) over minority quotas, election laws and the activation of the High Electoral Commission, the election date has been pushed back yet again.

In the current 111-seat parliament in the KRG, Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) has 45 lawmakers, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) has 21, Gorran Movement has 12, New Generation Movement has eight, and Kurdistan Islamic Society Party (Komel) seven.

The Turkmen community elected five representatives, while the Christian community elected six representatives under the quota system.

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