Towards a new phase at KDP
Towards a new phase at KDP
For the first time in years the Kurdistan Democratic Party is gathering its 13th Congress in Kurdistan Federal Region in Iraq. While KDP is giving regeneration messages it is reported that the number of the Central Committee will be extended and the women quota will be raised up to 16 percent..
Although the party statue prescribes congresses to be held every four years, KDP has realized only 12 congresses since 16 August 1946, whereas PUK could gather only 3 congresses in the last 34 years.
While KDP realized its last congress in 2000 due to winds of change blowing in the region it decided to gather its congress on 11 December. The congress of the other predominant party in the Kurdistan Region Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) which was held in June with changing slogan has ended with disappointment as Jala Talabani once again elected as the chair and no concrete changing project came out. PUK congress not only failed to create a new dynamism against its rival Goran movement but also several groups split up and PUK eventually lost 50 percent of its votes. Considering the elections of 1992 KDP has also lost 10 percent of its votes.
It is reported that more than a thousand delegates will take part in KDP congress which will be realised with regeneration, justice and unity slogans. Although some KDP officials are giving regeneration messages to the messages, the suspicions regarding the sincerity of the messages are increasing as KDP press organs fail to report any changing reports. Likewise, PUK press centre also remains alien to KDP congress.
It is reported that KDP is planning to increase the number of the Central Committee members and give more place to women in the committee and it is launching this situation as change. Rudaw daily reported that member of the KDP politburo Hoshyar Zabari stated that KDP needs to change itself at this congress and added: If an institution and state fail to change itself and convert in accordance with the recent developments in the world these developments change them. This is the reality of the life.
Zabari also added that one of the deficiencies of KDP is the 21-person central committee which he suggests to be extended up to 51 members. While it is also reported that at this congress 8 women will be elected to the Central Committee there are 25 women among 250 candidates standing in the elections for the committee.
Although the party statue prescribes congresses to be held every four years, KDP has realized only 12 congresses since 16 August 1946, whereas PUK could gather only 3 congresses in the last 34 years.
While KDP realized its last congress in 2000 due to winds of change blowing in the region it decided to gather its congress on 11 December. The congress of the other predominant party in the Kurdistan Region Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) which was held in June with changing slogan has ended with disappointment as Jala Talabani once again elected as the chair and no concrete changing project came out. PUK congress not only failed to create a new dynamism against its rival Goran movement but also several groups split up and PUK eventually lost 50 percent of its votes. Considering the elections of 1992 KDP has also lost 10 percent of its votes.
It is reported that more than a thousand delegates will take part in KDP congress which will be realised with regeneration, justice and unity slogans. Although some KDP officials are giving regeneration messages to the messages, the suspicions regarding the sincerity of the messages are increasing as KDP press organs fail to report any changing reports. Likewise, PUK press centre also remains alien to KDP congress.
It is reported that KDP is planning to increase the number of the Central Committee members and give more place to women in the committee and it is launching this situation as change. Rudaw daily reported that member of the KDP politburo Hoshyar Zabari stated that KDP needs to change itself at this congress and added: If an institution and state fail to change itself and convert in accordance with the recent developments in the world these developments change them. This is the reality of the life.
Zabari also added that one of the deficiencies of KDP is the 21-person central committee which he suggests to be extended up to 51 members. While it is also reported that at this congress 8 women will be elected to the Central Committee there are 25 women among 250 candidates standing in the elections for the committee.
