Member of the Diyala Council: Five cities, most notably Khanaqin will participate in the referendum of Kurdistan

Member of the Diyala Council: Five cities, most notably Khanaqin will participate in the referendum of Kurdistan



Tuesday 5 September

Al-Sommeria News / Baghdad
A member of the bloc of "brotherhood and coexistence" in the Kurdistan province of Diyala Hoshyar Ismail, Tuesday, that five cities in the province, most notably Khanaqin will participate in the referendum on the independence of the Kurdistan region to be held on the twenty-fifth of this September.

Ismail said in an interview with Alsumaria News that "five cities in Diyala most notably Khanaqin will participate in the referendum in the Kurdistan region in September after the approval of municipal councils to participate in official," noting that "the participation came in response to the demands of its people of all components."

He added that "participation in the referendum of the Kurdistan region is a historical event and came because of the despair of the policies of the central government and the failure to address dozens of accumulated problems, whether administrative or financial and non-implementation of Article 140 of the Constitution, in addition to preventing the Peshmerga gave their rights despite the submission of more than 10 thousand fighters between martyr And wounded in the fight against terrorism. "

Kurdish parties held a meeting on Wednesday (June 7, 2017) in the resort of Salah al-Din in Erbil, headed by Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani amid the boycott of some political forces, and agreed to hold a referendum on the fate of the region on the twenty-fifth of September, Parliamentary elections and the provincial presidency elections on the sixth of November.

On June 13, 2017, Abbadi considered that holding the referendum on the independence of Kurdistan "is not a position" and may hinder the solution of the problems between Baghdad and Erbil, while confirming the presence of Kurdish leaders "make up".

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