This would mean a decision was made by the KDP, the PUK, the Change movement and two Kurdish Islamic parties. Any useful outcome seems unlikely – the region doesn’t have a positive history when it comes to meetings where all five parties are supposed to come together on a serious topic like this.
Eight governments have been formed in Iraqi Kurdistan since 1992 and none of them have been dismissed, despite political, economic and security-related crises, including, during the 1990s, an intra-Kurdish civil war.
In 2011, the Change movement made a similar demand, insisting that the government be changed. The PUK and the KDP described it as an “attempted coup”.
So, despite the problems that the independence referendum has brought to Iraqi Kurdistan, it seems unlikely that the two major parties, who hold all the power partially because they have military power in their respective zones, will change their minds about being in government now.
“We do not support the idea of dismissing the current government,” Dler Mawati, a senior member of the PUK, told NIQASH. “It is better to change some of the ministers and some of the faces,” he noted.
“We are against the dismissal of the government because this will just lead to problems,” Mahmoud Mohammad, a senior KDP member, said in a press conference on Nov. 28.
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