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The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) announced on Sunday that it will participate in the upcoming Kurdistan Region parliamentary elections, contingent on recent changes to the voting mechanism. This announcement comes after the party’s boycott of the polls in March. Elections in Iraqi Kurdistan, initially scheduled for late 2022, faced repeated delays due to disputes between the KDP and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). “The Kurdistan Democratic Party has always been ready to participate in the elections, but we had concerns about its mechanisms,” said Ari Harsin, head of the KDP’s branc…

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