Main Kurdish parties announce alliance in elections

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: The two main Kurdish parties announced officially on Thursday that they will run in the forthcoming parliamentary elections on one list, according to an official in charge of elections in Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. “The PUK and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) have registered their alliance today (May 7) at the Independent Higher Electoral Commission (IHEC) in Arbil to participate in the parliamentary elections under one list called the Kurdistan List,” Shorash Ismail said in a press conference attended by IraqiNews.com news agency. Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barazani’s KDP and Talabani’s PUK had allied with several other Kurdish parties on one list during the 2005 legislative elections, where they gained majority in parliament. AmR (P) 1