Dawa Party responds to Kurdistan referendum: reminds us of the approach of the former regime

The Islamic Party of Dawa on Wednesday called on the Kurdistan region and its president Massoud Barzani to hold a referendum on the fate of the region, saying that the referendum and the region's politics are similar to the one that led the country for 35 years with "unconstitutional rule".

"The unity of Iraq is a national and Islamic foundation based on historical, geographic, social and economic realities and is affirmed by common interests, relations, family ties, tribal and clan ties, and the interplay between components, supported by daily realities and political events of the past and present," the party said in a statement.

He added that "the Iraqi constitution, which received popular and national acceptance through the referendum, has devoted unity of Iraq and the Union is indivisible between the components and different people, and expressed the will of Iraqis to uphold the unity of their country and refused to prejudice it under any pretext or argument, The referendum in the Kurdistan region is essential with the referendum on the constitution, which was held in 2005, in which all components of the Iraqi people, including the Kurds, participated in the establishment of a pluralistic parliamentary system.

The referendum, which the presidency intends to hold in September, lacks constitutional cover. Legal is clear and explicit. "

He explained that "the referendum under these data will not be a solution to the problems of the region and the crises suffered by over the past years and this is confirmed by the Kurdish parties and parties rejecting this referendum, and the loss of the constitutional and legal cover and the opposition of forces and political parties have great political and social weight on the Kurdish arena, Declaration of the presidency of the province to hold the referendum accompanied by the threat and the attempt to impose a policy of reality is also inconsistent with the simplest principles and principles of dealing with the federal government and other components of social and political Iraq, and this approach reminds us of the approach that dragged the Ed over thirty five years of rule is not based on constitutional contexts, which dragged the country into war and destruction. "

He added that "the question marks a large referendum to come in the region after the severe defeats suffered by the organization advocating the terrorist, the national responsibility and moral imperative to all participants in the political process to unite efforts to promote the victory of terrorists politically, socially, security and economically and in the best interests of the people And not to provoke crises and division in Iraqi society at this particular time. "

He pointed out that "insistence on holding the referendum strengthens the suspicion that there are agendas that will pose a threat to the national security of Iraq in the foreseeable future, and that the slightest of these tendentious attempts to achieve partisan interests at the expense of political forces in the region on the one hand and blackmail the federal government to obtain certain gains on the other hand With our firm belief that these gains will be at the expense of the supreme national interest of the Iraqi people. "

The party ended its statement by saying that "while we resolutely reject the holding of the referendum in September as being in direct conflict with the constitution and constitutes a real threat to the unity, sovereignty and independence of Iraq, we renew our firm commitment to the rights and interests of our Kurdish brothers who have tasted the cruelty and brutality of the dictatorial Baathist regime" , And we wish them to avoid the dangers of the referendum, which we believe will be a new destructive cycle that harms the Iraqis in general and the Kurds in particular.

The Kurdistan Regional Government intends to hold a referendum on secession from Iraq next September, despite widespread government and regional rejection.

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