Kurdistan Communist Party – Iraq calls for amending the election law

Kurdistan Communist Party – Iraq calls for amending the election law in Kurdistan Region

The Kurdistan Communist Party – Iraq organised a big demonstration in Arbil to call for amending the election law in Kurdistan Region. Many party members and supporters took part, marching from Park Shander in the centre of the city towards the building of the Kurdistan region parliament. A rally was organised there, with banners calling for replacing the !closed” electoral list in the present election law to a “half-open list.
Representatives of the demonstrators met a number of members of the legal committee and the human rights committee in parliament, and handed KCP’s memorandum to the presidency of parliament. Subhi Mehdi, member of the Central Committee of KCP read out the memorandum in front of the demonstrators and parliamentarians.
 
28 May 2013