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BAGHDAD
A member of the Iraqi Turkmen Entrance (ITC) mentioned Monday {that a} latest assembly of the Kirkuk provincial council at which a brand new governor and council speaker have been elected was unlawful and they might await a choice by the nation’s high courtroom on the matter.
“We have been stunned that after greater than seven months of native elections, the Kirkuk native authorities’s state of affairs is being dealt with in Baghdad,” mentioned Ersat Salihi in a press release.
The assembly, held Saturday at Baghdad’s Al-Rasheed Resort, excluded key ethnic teams, together with Turkmen.
Emphasizing that they’d not abandon the Kirkuk subject, Salihi added: “We are going to await the result of the ITC’s utility to the Federal Courtroom for the annulment of the Kirkuk governorship and council speaker election.”
The ITC had filed a petition with Iraq’s highest judicial authority, the Federal Supreme Courtroom, to annul the election.
Later within the day, the ITC additionally known as for a protest in opposition to the brand new native administration in Kirkuk, which excludes the illustration of Turkmen within the Kirkuk governorate and provincial council.
Objections have been raised in opposition to the truth that the elections for the Kirkuk governorate and provincial council presidencies have been held in Baghdad and that Turkmen weren’t represented, mentioned the ITC in a press release.
The ITC mentioned they don’t acknowledge the assembly and voting consequence and introduced that they’ll set up a protest on Tuesday.
The assertion known as on all Turkmen to take part within the protest, which is scheduled for Tuesday night in entrance of the Kirkuk governorate constructing, as a way to deal with this injustice in opposition to the Turkmen, who’re a basic aspect of Iraq and Kirkuk.
On Aug. 10, members of the Kirkuk Provincial Council, together with 5 members from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), three Arabs and one Christian, gathered at a lodge in Baghdad to vote for the governorship and council speaker positions.
The contributors supported PUK member Rebvar Taha for the governorship and Arab member Mohammed Hafiz for the council speaker place.
The PUK claimed in a press release that Taha was elected governor.
Turkmen, Kurdistan Democratic Get together (KDP) members and three Arab members of the Kirkuk Council boycotted the vote and didn’t attend the assembly.
The Kirkuk Provincial Council consists of 16 seats.
*Writing by Esra Tekin in Istanbul
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