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Mawazine News - Baghdad
Six Christian parties boycotted the parliamentary elections in the Kurdistan Region, in a move that came in response to the decision of the Federal Supreme Court (the highest judicial authority in Iraq) to abolish the quota seats in the Kurdistan Parliament elections.
The boycotting parties stated in a statement received by Mawazine News that on February 21, 2024, the Federal Court issued its decision numbered (83 and its unified numbers 131 and 185/Federal/2023) regarding the elections for the parliament of the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
The statement added, after many meetings between the leaders of our “national parties” during the last period and the issuance of the statement of the six parties on February 27, 2024 regarding the decision, which we indicated at the time that our people (the Chaldean Syriac Assyrians) had paid the price for the political conflicts over the quota seats between The influential parties and attempts to subjugate the parliamentary representation of our people in favor of partisan and factional interests outside the national house.”
The parties considered that the Federal Supreme Court had taken the easiest way to solve the problem before it, by abolishing an indigenous component and people and representing them in Parliament.
The statement stressed that the court had thus “overstepped its bounds .” Constitutional articles in a step considered a departure from the democratic process, and a retreat from the foundations of political, national and societal partnership that the Iraqi state adopted after 2003, and in the Kurdistan Region after 1991.
Accordingly, the parties decided to boycott the Kurdistan Regional Parliament elections scheduled for June 10. 2024, affirming their rejection of the “fait accompli” imposed on our people through the Federal Court’s decision, not amending the election law and restricting voting within the constituents. The
boycotting parties pointed out, according to the statement, that “our boycott of these elections strips the decision of all political legitimacy that comes through Integrating the pillars of the political process, which today is missing a basic pillar embodied in the representation of the national components in the legislative authority in the Kurdistan Region, and this violates many articles of the effective Constitution of the Republic of Iraq.”
She stressed that any figure who reaches Parliament through general lists “does not represent our people, and we are not bound by her positions or policies, but rather they are part of the political agendas that she brought to Parliament.”
She noted that the boycott position comes to preserve “our people’s national gains” that came as a result of great struggles and sacrifices over the past long decades and to confront the dictatorial regime, according to the statement.
She stressed that the rights of “our Chaldean Syriac Assyrian people are natural rights written with the blood of the martyrs and the wounded, and the tears of thousands of those who were displaced and whose villages were demolished and burned in the Black Anfal operations in 1988, and those who were affected by the bloody dictatorship and lost their lives and everything they owned.”
The statement concluded by saying, "Our national rights are not granted by any party. It grants them whenever it wants and revokes them whenever it wants."
The boycotting parties, according to the statement, are as follows:
1- The Assyrian Democratic Movement.
2- Beit Nahrin National Union Party.
3- The Assyrian National Party.
4- Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council.
5- The Sons of Two Rivers Party.
6- Beit Nahrin Democratic Party.
Before that, on February 11, Chaldean, Syriac, Armenian and Assyrian parties and forces announced their boycott of the Kurdistan Parliament elections as an expression of their rejection of the “historic mistake” of the Federal Court in abolishing the quota for components in the region.
The coalition forces and parties within the “Hammurabi Coalition,” the “National Unity Alliance,” and the “Chaldean Political Body,” which met at the headquarters of the Chaldean National Council Party, called for “accelerating the holding of elections in order to preserve the democratic experience in Kurdistan and preserve the constitutional entity of the Kurdistan Region.”
Six Christian parties boycotted the parliamentary elections in the Kurdistan Region, in a move that came in response to the decision of the Federal Supreme Court (the highest judicial authority in Iraq) to abolish the quota seats in the Kurdistan Parliament elections.
The boycotting parties stated in a statement received by Mawazine News that on February 21, 2024, the Federal Court issued its decision numbered (83 and its unified numbers 131 and 185/Federal/2023) regarding the elections for the parliament of the Iraqi Kurdistan region.
The statement added, after many meetings between the leaders of our “national parties” during the last period and the issuance of the statement of the six parties on February 27, 2024 regarding the decision, which we indicated at the time that our people (the Chaldean Syriac Assyrians) had paid the price for the political conflicts over the quota seats between The influential parties and attempts to subjugate the parliamentary representation of our people in favor of partisan and factional interests outside the national house.”
The parties considered that the Federal Supreme Court had taken the easiest way to solve the problem before it, by abolishing an indigenous component and people and representing them in Parliament.
The statement stressed that the court had thus “overstepped its bounds .” Constitutional articles in a step considered a departure from the democratic process, and a retreat from the foundations of political, national and societal partnership that the Iraqi state adopted after 2003, and in the Kurdistan Region after 1991.
Accordingly, the parties decided to boycott the Kurdistan Regional Parliament elections scheduled for June 10. 2024, affirming their rejection of the “fait accompli” imposed on our people through the Federal Court’s decision, not amending the election law and restricting voting within the constituents. The
boycotting parties pointed out, according to the statement, that “our boycott of these elections strips the decision of all political legitimacy that comes through Integrating the pillars of the political process, which today is missing a basic pillar embodied in the representation of the national components in the legislative authority in the Kurdistan Region, and this violates many articles of the effective Constitution of the Republic of Iraq.”
She stressed that any figure who reaches Parliament through general lists “does not represent our people, and we are not bound by her positions or policies, but rather they are part of the political agendas that she brought to Parliament.”
She noted that the boycott position comes to preserve “our people’s national gains” that came as a result of great struggles and sacrifices over the past long decades and to confront the dictatorial regime, according to the statement.
She stressed that the rights of “our Chaldean Syriac Assyrian people are natural rights written with the blood of the martyrs and the wounded, and the tears of thousands of those who were displaced and whose villages were demolished and burned in the Black Anfal operations in 1988, and those who were affected by the bloody dictatorship and lost their lives and everything they owned.”
The statement concluded by saying, "Our national rights are not granted by any party. It grants them whenever it wants and revokes them whenever it wants."
The boycotting parties, according to the statement, are as follows:
1- The Assyrian Democratic Movement.
2- Beit Nahrin National Union Party.
3- The Assyrian National Party.
4- Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council.
5- The Sons of Two Rivers Party.
6- Beit Nahrin Democratic Party.
Before that, on February 11, Chaldean, Syriac, Armenian and Assyrian parties and forces announced their boycott of the Kurdistan Parliament elections as an expression of their rejection of the “historic mistake” of the Federal Court in abolishing the quota for components in the region.
The coalition forces and parties within the “Hammurabi Coalition,” the “National Unity Alliance,” and the “Chaldean Political Body,” which met at the headquarters of the Chaldean National Council Party, called for “accelerating the holding of elections in order to preserve the democratic experience in Kurdistan and preserve the constitutional entity of the Kurdistan Region.”
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