Kurdish blocs withdraw from political process in Iraq
Kurdish blocs withdraw from political process in Iraq
All Kurdish blocs have decided to withdraw from the political process in Iraq and return to Kurdistan, MP of the Parliament Defense and Security and member of the Kurdish Alliance Shakha wan Abdullah announced on Sunday.
He added that after voting the 2018 state budget and Kirkuk crisis, there is nothing that binds the Kurdistan Region Government with the Baghdad Federal Government.
He further stated that the Kurdish Alliance members are convinced that continuing to participate in the political process in Iraq is meaningless.
Abdullah asserted that after this decision Kurds will return to their people in Kurdistan with their heads high.
The Iraqi parliament approved 12 articles of the budget bill amid boycott by Kurdish lawmakers, who protest what they call insufficient quota of the budget. The parliament also approved the Kurdish quota of the budget, made up 12.7 percent of the budget.
The new budget bill was drafted in October, cutting the region's share to 12.67 percent, which outraged the Kurdish MPs, who seek to keep the region's share of the budget as 17 percent as previously set based on populations estimates in 2005.
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