Monday, March 21st 2011
Barzani vows to resign if reform not enforced, says official
Erbil, The head of Sulaimaniya Provincial Council said Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani has vowed to resign in case the government failed to enforce his reform package within four months.
Kawa Abdullah told AKnews Barzani statement was made in the meeting with the head of the political factions in the Council Wednesday.
The Kurdish president assembled with the Council to address the one-month anti-government public rallies that have swept through Sulaimaniya, one of the three provinces in the Kurdistan Region, northern Iraq.
Abdullah added in the same assembly Barzani said he will propose a reform package and if the terms in that bid are not met in the course of the three or four months he will announce his resignation publicly.
At the sidelines of his congratulations message for Newroz, Barzani said Sunday he hopes for the Kurdish government to implement broad changes within the following four months. He promised the public changes in Kurdistan polity and administration.
Kurds mark March 21, the first day of spring as Newroz which is also the first day of a new Kurdish year (2711 this year).
Some other reports said Barzani who has been running the presidency for two terms will not nominate himself for the next round of voting which seems to take place at least after six months.
As a measure to convince the protesting public, Barzani suggested early elections to reshuffle the almost one-year-and-half Kurdish cabinet- the sixth one since the establishment of Kurdistan semi-autonomous region in 1991.
Earlier Barzani told an Italian newspaper that if 50,000 Kurdistan citizens require him to step down, he will. Afterwards, the opposition parties led a signature campaign and reportedly collected even more votes to oust the president. However, the fate of those signatures is still unclear.
Some representatives of Sulaimaniya protesters published a statement Sunday, expressing the public frustration with the Kurdistan authority. They representatives thought the public does not feel the Kurdish government, parliament and presidency take concert strides to meet their demands- their responses are only “promises not actions.”
The mass displays in Sulaimaniya caused seven lives in confrontations between security and the public and wounded over two hundreds. The protesters call for end of corruption, injustice and monopoly, provision of basic services, and employment.
http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/4/226554/
Barzani vows to resign if reform not enforced, says official
Erbil, The head of Sulaimaniya Provincial Council said Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani has vowed to resign in case the government failed to enforce his reform package within four months.
Kawa Abdullah told AKnews Barzani statement was made in the meeting with the head of the political factions in the Council Wednesday.
The Kurdish president assembled with the Council to address the one-month anti-government public rallies that have swept through Sulaimaniya, one of the three provinces in the Kurdistan Region, northern Iraq.
Abdullah added in the same assembly Barzani said he will propose a reform package and if the terms in that bid are not met in the course of the three or four months he will announce his resignation publicly.
At the sidelines of his congratulations message for Newroz, Barzani said Sunday he hopes for the Kurdish government to implement broad changes within the following four months. He promised the public changes in Kurdistan polity and administration.
Kurds mark March 21, the first day of spring as Newroz which is also the first day of a new Kurdish year (2711 this year).
Some other reports said Barzani who has been running the presidency for two terms will not nominate himself for the next round of voting which seems to take place at least after six months.
As a measure to convince the protesting public, Barzani suggested early elections to reshuffle the almost one-year-and-half Kurdish cabinet- the sixth one since the establishment of Kurdistan semi-autonomous region in 1991.
Earlier Barzani told an Italian newspaper that if 50,000 Kurdistan citizens require him to step down, he will. Afterwards, the opposition parties led a signature campaign and reportedly collected even more votes to oust the president. However, the fate of those signatures is still unclear.
Some representatives of Sulaimaniya protesters published a statement Sunday, expressing the public frustration with the Kurdistan authority. They representatives thought the public does not feel the Kurdish government, parliament and presidency take concert strides to meet their demands- their responses are only “promises not actions.”
The mass displays in Sulaimaniya caused seven lives in confrontations between security and the public and wounded over two hundreds. The protesters call for end of corruption, injustice and monopoly, provision of basic services, and employment.
http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/4/226554/
