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21:th March
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Mazher Xaleqi
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Kirkuk Stops Iraqi Electoral Law
Kurdistannetwork - November 8, 2009
The Iraqi parliament has postponed the vote to approve a new electoral law, Saturday, that it needs to hold January 16 parliamentary elections.
It was the seventh time in the last month that Iraqi MPs were unable to resolve disagreements.
It was several times in recent weeks that the Iraqi parliament tried and failed to reach a consensus over a new electoral law to pave the way for scheduled parliamentary elections on January 16.
The Iraqi parliament has been quarreling for weeks over the key issue of how to apportion seats in the ethnically mixed, oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
An minority alliance of Sunni Arab politicians hope to divide seats equally in Kirkuk between Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen, while a Kurdish coalition is pushing to use a 2009 electoral role, which is reflecting the current population of Kirkuk which has a clear kurdish majority.
Rebecca Santana a Associated Press Writer, states on November 1, 2009 that the -The population breakdown remains in dispute but U.S. officials estimated last spring that Kurds make up 52 percent of Kirkuk and its province, with Arabs at 35 percent and Turkmen about 12 percent. -
The Kurdish officials themselves estimate that 70% of the total Kirkuk population is of Kurdish origin.
The world media at large is wrongly accusing Kurds, without any base or proof that that Kurds are changing the demography of Kirkuk to their advantage. This is biased and unprofessional journalism which only favors the intrests of some countries who want to have a more centralized Iraq, and not respecting the Kurdish demands and fears.
At the same time the Kurdish lawmakers and politicians are getting softer on the Kirkuk issue which could be translated to that they are receiving pressure from more than the neighboring countries. The pressure is only on the Kurds and to them the Kurds are the only ones that should compromise, not the turkmen, Arab or even the central government.
The Kurds should not compromise on the Kirkuk issue it is their legal right to ask for what is theirs, Kirkuk is historical a Kurdish city and has a clear Kurdish majority, these to aspects alone should make the world media understand the kurdish demands and not to ridicule or avoid the issue.
Kurdistan Network
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