Dilshad Shahab, an adviser to KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, said that the government is doing everything in its power to overcome the crisis and has not stopped its efforts “despite the … plots and hostile hands that want to disrupt the peace” and stability of the Kurdistan region.
Barzani, accompanied by his deputy Qubad Talabani, is in Germany meeting officials, including Chancellor Angela Merkel. He called for calm on Dec. 19 and asked the protesters to refrain from using violence.
Following the independence referendum, a power struggle broke out between various political parties in Kurdistan with some calling on the KRG to step down and a new transitional government to replace it. Iran is said to be pushing for change in the region and is in favor of deposing those officials who pushed for the referendum and replacing them with more friendly figures.
While the KRG maintains that it is a unified government, the reality on the ground is different, as the PUK and the KDP control their own security forces and run their finances more or less independently of each other. As activists and organizers call for further peaceful protest, there are voices calling for the possible division of the Kurdistan region. “What has happened since yesterday is not peaceful coexistence. We should not torture our people anymore … because we have proved that we cannot live together,” Ari Harsin, the head of the Peshmerga Committee in Kurdistan's parliament and who is close to the KDP, said Tuesday night. “If the PUK, KDP and Gorran cannot guarantee a peaceful coexistence, … they should divide [Kurdistan] into two stable administrations.”
As usual, Nichirvan Barzany makes promises, he never fulfill, he and his uncle and family stashed 700 billion USD in Swiss banks, he pays from revenues from costumes , only one third and takes 2/3 for himself, they become so greedy that no one ever believe in him or entire Barzani family
This year they care not for the welfare of kurdish people whom sacrificed a lot for them , no heating oil , and it is cold in the mountains , they sel it on black market with as much as 5 times its actual costs , make money from crises , increasing benzine they have to go once and for ever prices by 20% percent,