Election struggle in the region: The Kurdish Change Movement.. How can the “ruins of a scattered par

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[size=52]Election struggle in the region: The Kurdish Change Movement.. How can the “ruins of a scattered party” compete with the big guys?[/size]

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Kurdish politician Latif al-Sheikh confirmed, on Saturday (October 12, 2024), that the weight and popularity of the Kurdish Change Movement was due to its opposition to the ruling parties within the region.[/size]
[size=45]The Sheikh said in an interview that “as soon as the Change Movement entered the Kurdistan government and obtained ministries and positions, it became a partner of the ruling parties, and it no longer had any effective role, and it will not be able to obtain seats in the Kurdistan Parliament elections.”[/size]
[size=45]He added, “We saw in the last Iraqi parliamentary elections that the Change Movement did not win a single seat, and with the dispersion and disagreement between the movement’s two wings represented by the sons of the movement’s founder, Nawshirwan Mustafa, and the other wing led by the new general coordinator, Dana Majeed, the movement’s situation worsened, and it was unable to compete, despite the presence of a large number of opposition parties and independents who enjoy strong support within the Kurdish arena.”[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that "this is why I believe that the Change Movement has become a thing of the past, and most of the youth leaders have left the movement after it enjoyed great support in the Kurdish community."[/size]
[size=45]The big surprise[/size]
[size=45]The Kurdish Change Movement is a newly established party whose goals include “breaking the duality of the two traditional parties representing the Kurds of Iraq, and fighting corruption in the institutions of the Kurdistan Region.”[/size]
[size=45]The Iraqi Kurdish Change Movement is known by its Kurdish name “Gorran”. The movement, led by Nawshirwan Mustafa, the second man in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, split from the union in 2007 under the name Woshe (the Word), first, and then transformed into the Change Movement in preparation for participating in the parliamentary elections in 2009.[/size]
[size=45]During the 2009 regional parliamentary elections, the Change Movement achieved a major surprise, winning 25 out of 111 parliamentary seats in the regional parliament, coming in second after the Kurdistan List, which was composed of the two main parties, and for years held the position of the main opposition party in parliament. The movement also entered the Iraqi parliamentary elections at that time, winning nearly half a million votes, and winning eight parliamentary seats out of 325.[/size]
[size=45]During the 2013 elections, the movement further modified its position, becoming the second party in the regional parliament, even surpassing the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which led the then-designate Prime Minister of the region, Nechirvan Barzani, to say that the representation proven by the Gorran Movement made it impossible for it not to participate in power.[/size]
[size=45]The movement participated in political power, and after the agreement of the three parties, one of its members became the speaker of the regional parliament, four of its members were ministers in the government formation, and one of them took over the sensitive Ministry of Finance portfolio in the region.[/size]
[size=45]The struggle for the presidency of the region[/size]
[size=45]However, the situation soon deteriorated between the movement and the Kurdistan Democratic Party, due to the conflict over the position of the President of the Kurdistan Region. While the Democratic Party insisted that dialogue and consensus were the basis for determining the fate of that, the movement insisted on forming a political alliance outside that consensus and overthrowing the former President of the Region from within Parliament. Therefore, the conflict reached its peak after the Speaker of Parliament was prevented from entering the capital, Erbil, and parliamentary life was halted throughout the years 2015-2017 in the region, and the movement’s four ministers were dismissed.[/size]
[size=45]In the last parliamentary elections in 2018, the movement’s popularity declined to nearly a third, as it won only 12 parliamentary seats out of 111 seats, despite its alliances and agreements with the Islamic movements in the region. Thus, the movement became part of the network of agreements with the two main parties, to occupy a number of positions and sites in the government and institutions of the authority in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.[/size]
[size=45]Deterioration of the opposition movement[/size]
[size=45]A wide range of complex factors led to the “deterioration” of the conditions of the Kurdish opposition movement in this way, a deterioration that mainly resulted from the movement’s abandonment of the formative foundations on which it was built, and its persistent efforts to be one of the ruling parties in the region.[/size]
[size=45]These same foundations may have been the effective factor in preventing such organizations from having an open horizon and a qualitative “historical” influence on the political societies in which they operate.[/size]
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