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⭐ Core Definition: Kurdistan Region Parliament

The Kurdistan Regional Parliament, also known as Kurdistan Parliament – Iraq (Kurdish: پەرلەمانی كوردستان; Arabic: برلمان اقليم كردستان), or simply Perleman, is the parliament of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq. It comprises representatives from various parties, lists or slates elected every four years by the inhabitants of the Kurdistan Region, which the Kurdistan Regional Government currently governs. In 2009, an amendment was applied to the Kurdistan Election Law of the year 1992, changing the name of the body to the Kurdish Parliament from its previous name: the Kurdish National Assembly. In February 2024, the Federal Supreme Court of Iraq invalidated several articles of the election law and simultaneously amended it, decreasing the number of seats in the parliament from 110 to 100, among other structural changes.

The Parliament is a 100-member unicameral body in which 5 seats are reserved for non-Kurdish minority communities of the Kurdistan Region. The Parliament building is located in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region.

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👉 Kurdistan Region Parliament in the context of Kurdistan Region

The Kurdistan Region (KRI) is a semi-autonomous federal region of the Republic of Iraq. It comprises four Kurdish-majority governorates of Arab-majority Iraq: Erbil Governorate, Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Duhok Governorate, and Halabja Governorate. It is located in northern Iraq, which shares borders with Iran to the east, Turkey to the north, and Syria to the west.

It does not govern all of Iraqi Kurdistan and lays claim to the disputed territories of northern Iraq; these territories have a predominantly non-Arab population and were subject to the Ba'athist Arabization campaigns throughout the late 20th century. Though the KRI's autonomy was realized in 1992, one year after Iraq's defeat in the Gulf War, these northern territories remain contested between the Kurdistan Regional Government (in Erbil) and the Government of Iraq (in Baghdad) to the present day. The Kurdistan Region Parliament is based in Erbil, the capital of KRI.

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Kurdistan Region Parliament in the context of 2005 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on 30 January 2005 alongside national and governorate elections. They were the first parliamentary elections held in Kurdistan Region since 1992.

The Democratic Patriotic Alliance won 104 of the 111 seats in the National Assembly.

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