The 21 Spetember elections in Iraqi Kurdistan have certainly shaken the two decades long unchanged political landscape. Opposition party Gorran ("Change" which split from government coalition party PUK in 2009) jumped to take the second position, behind government's biggest coalition party, KDP. And this heartquake has no doubt throw the region in a chaos. A political chaos, that is. Announcement of the results have been postponed due to allegations of fraud, but the reality remains: the KDP is the first party, Gorran the second and PUK the third. It was precisely the PUK that appeared to have lost votes, in favour of Gorran. 

Today, member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan politburo Mala Bakhtiar said in a statement that PUK will be a part of the new Kurdistan Government. He added the government would be formed by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (DKP) led by the President of Kurdistan Region Masoud Barazani. Bakhtiar also stressed that Gorran (led by Nosherwan Mustafa) has offered PUK to join it to form a new coalition excluding the KDP from the government.

"Our strategic alliance with the KDP - added Bakhtiar - is not for the government, but for the interest of Kurdistan Region and the Kurds. We had worked together with the KDP and learned a lot together, we know them and they know us and we would not jeopardize their good relation for any reason".