I have no doubt that these people belong to the security apparatus of the Kurdistan Democratic Party," Koran said, "I published an article about the intelligence forces of the party, and I described them as the spy wing of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which is headed by [President of Iraqi Kurdistan] Massoud Barzani .
For the first time in the region's history, politics is not solely dominated by the Kurdistan Democratic Party of recently re-elected regional president Massud Barzani, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.
The paper quoted an anonymous government source stating that the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) the two parties which make Kurdistan List will take six ministries each.
A joint list between his Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) of Iraq's President Jalal Talabani won 57% of the ballots cast, giving them 55 seats in the 111-member parliament - a total much less than before.
Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) have for decades dominated politics in Kurdistan, and their joint list secured 57 percent of the vote in the parliamentary poll.
In the Kurdish region's parliamentary elections, the ruling coalition of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) won 56.
A joint list between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the party of regional president Massud Barzani, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), the party of Iraqi President Jala Talabani, reportedly won 60 percent of the ballots.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of regional president Massud Barzani and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani have dominated Iraqi Kurdish politics for half a century, first as rebels and then following the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf war, as the region s effective rulers.
