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Political parties representing the Christian and Turkmen communities in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region announced on Monday their resolve to boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections in the region if Iraq’s federal court did not guarantee their minority quota seats in the Kurdish legislature. Iraq’s Supreme Federal Court on 23 Februaryruled that the Kurdistan region parliament’s minority quota seats are “unconstitutional”, stating that the region’s parliament consists of 100 lawmakers, thus terminating the existence of eleven quota seats for the Turkmen, Christians, and Armenian minorities in th…