Three Kurdistan MPs deny resigning from its Parliament

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: Three Kurdistan Parliament Members, representing the Kurdish opposition Goran (Change) Movement have denied resignation from the Kurdistan Parliament, but they said they have decided to suspend their attendance of its sessions.   The Kurdish Legislature, Jaafar Ali, Zana Raouf and Shahu Saaed have announced in a statement, copy of which was received by IraqiNews.com news agency, saying “there had been some rumors and erroneous news, claiming that we have resigned from the Kurdistan Parliament, and that we have been waiting for the end of the Parliament’s remaining 2-year session to go on pension.”   “So, we announce by this statement for the Kurdistan Public Opinion that all those news reports and rumors were erroneous and fabricated, as we are still members in the Kurdistan Parliament,” they said, adding: “but we still continue adopting the previous decision by the opposition MPs, to boycott the Parliament’s sessions and its activities, till the emergence of the radical reforms, the detention of the killers of demonstrators on the Parliament’s agenda and the carrying out of serious and legal investigations against the executive bodies and persons charged with having been behind those cases.”   “We had presented our resignations in the past from the Parliament’s membership twice during the current year, once after the protest demonstrations and the undermining of the human pride in this Homeland and another during the attacks against the demonstrators by the security bodies of the two Parties of the Authority,” the statement said.   It said: “But the Parliament did not take any position towards that, though our Big Brother, Nowsherwan Mustapha and some other comrades in the Goran (Change) Movement and its parliamentary bloc had demanded us to postpone our decision, in order to open a chance before the current talks between the opposition and the Authority, one of its points of which consists of reforms in the Parliamentary system and the adjustment of the internal program of the Parliament.”   In conclusion, the three MPs said: “From here, we would like to satisfy the masses of Kurdistan people in general and the electorates who granted us their trust in special, that we shall restore our positions in the Parliament and continue our role in its missions and activities with pride, if we find genuine horizons for reform in Kurdistan and if the Parliament is changes into an active legislative and observing institution, or else if we don’t witness any horizons for transformation and if the Parliament continues its weak role, we will surely take other attitudes, that we shall announce to the public opinion.”   SKH (FT) 481