Peregraf
Jumana Ghalai, the spokeswoman for the Iraqi High Election Commission (IHEC), informed Peregraf that the candidate list for the upcoming Kurdistan parliamentary elections will be officially approved by the High Council of Commissioners next week. Alongside this approval, the date for the election campaign will also be announced.
Ghalai emphasized that the voting process will remain free and confidential, ensuring that no one can access information about which candidates or lists the voters choose. She further noted that the voting form will not include names, and the Iraqi constitution guarantees both the freedom to participate in elections and the secrecy of voting.
Kurdistan parliamentary elections scheduled for October 20, 2024. The Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission and political parties welcomed the date and are ready to conduct the process and preparations continue.
The Kurdistan Parliament consists of 100 seats and five seats are reserved for the communities. The election will be held in a four constituencies system.
The seats in parliament are divided among the provinces as follows; Erbil province has 34 seats, two of which are for communities, Sulaimaniyah province has 38 seats, two of which are for communities, Duhok province has 25 seats, including one seat for communities, and Halabja province has three seats.
The election has been postponed four times so far. Initially, Nechirvan Barzani, the President of Kurdistan Region of Iraq set October 1, 2022 for the elections, but they were not held on that date. Despite three other times that the KRI President announced for the elections (18 November 2023, 25 February 2024 and 10 June 2024), the elections were not held on those three dates.
Following the first elections on 19 May 1992, no elections for the Kurdistan Parliament have been held within the legal deadline during the three decades of the Kurdistan rule by PUK and PDK.