Anger is simmering among Iraq’s Kurdish youth
It has been more than a month since Iraq's Kurdish region held its parliamentary election, and a new Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) is yet to be announced. Currently, intense negotiations are taking place between the two main political players in the region - the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) […]Mariya Petkova writes for Al Jazeera:
It has been more than a month since Iraq's Kurdish region held its parliamentary election, and a new Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) is yet to be announced. Currently, intense negotiations are taking place between the two main political players in the region - the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) - dispelling speculations that their decades-old power-sharing agreement had come to an end after the severe political fallout from last year's independence referendum.
But as the two parties are busy evening out their differences and haggling over ministerial posts, there does not seem to be much enthusiasm about the new KDP-PUK government, especially among the youth.
