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Powerful Kurdish party withdraws from KRG leaving cracks in northern Iraq's government

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“Powerful Kurdish party withdraws from KRG leaving cracks in northern Iraq's government”

A powerful Kurdish party in Iraq announced it is to withdraw from the northern Kurdistan Regional Government ( KRG ), deepening a political crisis with its longtime rival and raising fears of a return to parallel administrations in the region. The move came after the Kurdistan parliament convened for the first time in nearly two years and elected a Speaker despite a boycott by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and allied parties, which had demanded further negotiations over the…

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