Gorran

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بزوتنه‌وه‌ی‌ گۆڕان
Bzutinewey Gorran
Movement for Change
Party emblem
Party leader Omer Said
founding 2009
Headquarters Sulaimaniyya
Alignment Democracy , civil rights , the fight against corruption , social justice , federalism , Kurdish nationalism
Colours) dark blue
Parliament seats In the Council of Representatives : 8 out of 325
In the Kurdistan Parliament : 24 out of 111
Website gorran.net
Election posters of the List for Change in Erbil 2009

Gorran ( Kurdish بزوتنه‌وه‌ی‌ گۆڕان Bzutineweyz Gorran ), also known as the List for Change ( Lîstî Gorran ) or Movement for Change, is a Kurdish party in the autonomous region of Kurdistan founded by Navshirvan Mustafa . It emerged in 2009 as an opposition to the ruling two-party coalition of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan .

Goals and members

The List for Change changed the political landscape in the Kurdish areas of Iraq. The support for the movement comes on the one hand from its young, dynamic image, on the other hand from its commitment to national reconciliation in Iraq. B. in Kirkuk for a common commitment against corruption across ethnic borders. She calls for an end to the power monopoly of the KDP and PUK . One of the main goals of the List for Change is to fight rampant corruption. The list accuses the KDP and PUK of doing a poor job of promoting Kurdish interests in the federal parliament in Baghdad .

The party is comparatively popular among the youth in Kurdistan because of its campaign against patronage . It consists mainly of former PUK / KDP members, former Peshmerga and academics. So far, the list's supporters have often been intimidated by sometimes violent means. Gorran is seen as the main opposition to the KDP-PUK alliance, especially in the areas dominated by the PUK. Most of its members, including Navshirvan Mustafa , are former PUK officials. The best-known member, based on the votes in the 2013 parliamentary election, is Ali Hama Saleh . He got around 140,000 votes, making him the most elected candidate in the Kurdistan region.

history

The party's program for the 2009 elections aimed to depoliticize the regional government, strengthen the judiciary, limit political interference in the economy and make the budget more transparent. During the movement of the federalism for Iraqi - Kurdistan supported, they also emphasized that disagreements with the central government through dialogue based on the Iraqi constitution could be resolved. It requires its candidates to be able to speak Arabic .

The Change List won a total of 24 seats in the September 2013 election, making it the second strongest list in the election just behind the KDP . The party sees the election results as a great victory. It received over 40% of the vote in Sulaymaniyah Province and became the strongest party.

In 2011, the party called for the resignation of the cabinet and the dissolution of the Kurdish regional government, and supported protests based on the 2011 revolution in Egypt . This was accompanied by actions against the two ruling parties. However, Nawschirwan Mustafa distanced himself from the protests, presumably after he had been unofficially promised to participate in power in the Kurdistan region. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have urged that the protests be allowed and called for an independent investigation into the deaths of protesters.

In October 2015, Gorran called for protests against the government of the Kurdistan region and its President Masud Barzani . The reason was initially the lack of salaries for officials and soldiers of the Peshmerga . The protests in Sulaimaniyya and other places in the south of the Kurdish region, however, were also directed against Barzani's plans to extend his term of office contrary to the constitution, and took on a violent character. Offices of the Barzani party KDP were demolished and two people were killed. Barzani then had the Gorran region ministers expelled from Erbil and the Gorrans television station shut down.

On May 17, 2016, Gorran and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan concluded an agreement on political cooperation that enables the formation of alliances in parliament and joint lists in elections.

After the death of Navshirvan Mustafa, Omer Said was elected party chairman. Gorran spoke out against the independence referendum in September 2017 and allowed his supporters to vote.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Goran" opposition movement becomes political party. medyanews.com, October 2, 2011, accessed February 6, 2018 .
  2. ^ New Kurdish party to challenge polls . In: BBC . March 6, 2010 ( news.bbc.co.uk [accessed October 8, 2015]).
  3. ↑ a b Michael M. Gunter: Historical Dictionary of the Kurds . Scarecrow Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-7507-4 , pp. 105 ( books.google.com [accessed December 2, 2015]).
  4. ↑ a b Up on the Hill is where you'll find us. blog.fpc.org.uk, June 3, 2010, archived from the original on August 3, 2011 ; Retrieved June 3, 2010 .
  5. ^ Reformist gains in Kurdish vote shake Iraq's quiet north. In: The Independent. Retrieved October 8, 2015 (UK English).
  6. ↑ Goran leaves Iraq's Kurdish alliance with less clout al- Arabiya.Retrieved February 1, 2011.
  7. ^ The Kurdish way . In: The Economist . ISSN  0013-0613 ( economist.com [accessed October 8, 2015]).
  8. ↑ Anthony H. Cordesman, Adam Mausner, Elena Derby: Iraq and the United States: Creating a Strategic Partnership . CSIS, 2010, ISBN 978-0-89206-595-0 ( books.google.com [accessed October 8, 2015]).
  9. ↑ Sam Dagher: Opposition Rattles a Governing Coalition in Iraqi Kurds' Vote . In: The New York Times . July 26, 2009, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed October 8, 2015]).
  10. ^ Kurdish Iraq: An Emerging Success CBS News. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
  11. ^ About the Kurdistan Parliament. (PDF) In: perleman.org. Kurdistan Parliament, accessed July 24, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Kurdish election lists ( Memento from July 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Niqash , June 30, 2009
  13. ↑ IHEC announced final results of Iraq's Kurdistan Parliamentary elections 2013 . ekurd.net, October 2, 2013
  14. ↑ Results. In: Rudaw. Retrieved October 8, 2015 .
  15. ^ Thomas Schmidinger: New scope. How the Kurds in Iraq and Syria are using the Arab Spring for themselves . (PDF) iz3w, No. 330, May / June 2012
  16. ^ Iraqis protest in Kurdish region, capital . In: Reuters . February 19, 2011 ( reuters.com [accessed October 8, 2015]).
  17. ^ Arnold Hottinger, The Kurds argue for their leadership , journal21.ch, October 12, 2015
  18. ^ Al-Monitor, Will unity deal deepen rivalries in Iraqi Kurdistan? , May 18, 2016 ( Memento from June 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ Gorran chooses Omer Said Ali as new general coordinator. In: nrttv.com. NRT TV News, accessed on August 23, 2017 .
  20. ^ A public statement from the Change Movement (Gorran) on Kurdistan Referendum. In: Official Website of the Change Movement (Gorran). Gorran, September 24, 2017, archived from the original on October 3, 2017 ; accessed on December 6, 2018 .