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Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament

Kurdistan Parliament
Perlemanî Kurdistan
پەرلەمانی كوردستان
Type
Type
Leadership
Speaker of Parliament
Yousif Muhammed, Gorran Movement,
Since April 28, 2014
Deputy Speaker of Parliament
Jaafar Emniki, KDP
Since April 28, 2014
Structure
Seats 111 Seats in the Assembly
Current Structure of the Kurdish Regional Assembly
Political groups

Parties Represented in Parliament

  •      KDP (38)
  •      Gorran (24)
  •      PUK (18)
  •      Yekgirtû (10)
  •      KIK (6)
  •      Others (4)
  •      Reserved for minorities (11)
Elections
Last election
21 September 2013
Meeting place
KRG Parliament Building
Website
Official website

Parties Represented in Parliament

The Kurdistan Parliament (Kurdish: پەرلەمانی كوردستان or simply Perleman (Parliament), Arabic: المجلس الوطني لكوردستان), also called the Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament (IKP), is the parliament of Iraqi Kurdistan. It is made up of representatives from the various parties, lists or slates that are elected every four years by the inhabitants of the provinces of Iraqi Kurdistan currently governed by the Kurdistan Regional Government. Prior to the Kurdistan Election Law passed in March 2009, the body was referred to as the Kurdistan National Assembly.

The IKP is a 111-member unicameral body in which 11 seats are reserved for non-Kurdish minority communities of the Iraqi Kurdistan region. The IKP building is located in Erbil, the official capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan region.

The IKP holds two sessions per year, each covering a span of four months out of the year. The IKP works by committees that focus on certain areas such as legal affairs, education and higher education, finance and economy, or relations and culture. Laws proposals and bills are initiated via the Regional Council of Ministries or at least by the endorsement of ten individual members of parliament in order to voted on and eventually passed to the president of the Iraqi Kurdistan region.

Since its formation, the IKP has passed several important laws relating to administration, political parties, the press, the economy, culture, and society.


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