Candidates of the Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party (PCDK) have visited executives of the KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) in the guerrilla-controlled Media Defense Areas (MDA) on Wednesday. The PCDK candidates were welcomed by KCK Executive Council co-presidents Cemil Bayık and Besê Hozat.

PCDK will for the first time be taking part in the parliamentary election to take place in Federal Kurdistan Region on 21 September,

The visit took place as part of the electoral campaign of the candidates of the Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party.

Speaking about the election to be held in Federal Kurdistan Region on Saturday, KCK executive Cemil Bayık said that the practice of democratic elections and changes in southern Kurdistan would also pave the way for further progress in the entire Kurdistan region. Bayık pointed out that this was the only way to enable Federal Kurdistan Region to play its part for progress in its own territory, in Iraq and in other parts of Kurdistan.

Bayık remarked that southern Kurdistan territory needed a democratic system to answer the demands of its people who -he underlined- "are worthy of a more democratic life after all the great prices they have paid and great pains they have suffered in the liberation struggle they have given for years".

Bayık noted that election didn't mean democracy but was a part of it, underlining that all ideas in southern Kurdistan should be granted with the freedom of expression and organization.

Speaking after, Besê Hozat called attention to the high rate of women's participation in the elections and commented this as a remarkable progress to help the changing of the present system in south which -she said- has been eliminating women from elections up to date. "It is only free women that can change this reactionary and feudal mentality. The better women play their part in politics, the more progress can a society make and the more easily can a democratic society be built", she added.