Shafaq News / The President of Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani called on Sunday, all working parties in the region to meet before 20 of current August and approve what they see as beneficial to the interests of the region to get out of the crisis. This came in a letter directed by Barzani today to all official parties legally licensed in the region, received by Shafaq News, demanding the Region’s Office to provide the necessary cooperation in this regard. Barzani said in the letter that in order to pass this crisis, I demand all to participate in the government and parliament of Kurdistan parties and those that have a legal permit to meet before the twentieth of the current August and decide what they see fit for the benefit of the country and end the crisis in order to be implemented.
The mandate of President of Kurdistan region extended in the nineteenth of this August will end without the political parties reach a compromise that pleases all of the divided parties to the two fronts; first the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan , Change Movement , Islamic Union , the Islamic Group that demand for a parliamentary system and elect the President of the region within the Parliament and define his powers and make them ceremonial, and the second front includes Kurdistan Democratic Party and some small blocs in parliament and calls for extension of Barzani’s mandate to the end the current parliamentary session and elect the President of the region through direct ballot SOURCE