Pire: Flawed Government Partnership Cannot Resolve Kurdistan Region’s Problems

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Saadi Ahmed Pire, member of the PUK Political Bureau.

Saadi Ahmed Pire, a member of the Political Bureau of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), has criticised the unequal distribution of revenues and the imbalance of power in the Kurdistan Region, warning that an unfair government partnership cannot resolve the region’s problems.

However, he stressed that neither the PUK nor the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) could successfully form a government independently, emphasising that the PUK’s priority was to reactivate parliament and form the next Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) cabinet.

Speaking on Saturday at the fourth Gulekhana Forum, Pire said the Kurdistan Region had played no role in the conflict between the United States and Iran and had sought to remain distant from all wars.

“Our people have sacrificed thousands of martyrs and everything they possess throughout their struggle for liberation. It is now time for them to find some respite,” he said.

Addressing government formation, Pire said neither the PUK nor the KDP would make significant progress by attempting to govern alone.

“There is an imbalance in the distribution of power, and a flawed partnership in government cannot solve our problems,” he said.

He added that the PUK’s immediate priorities were to reactivate parliament and establish the next KRG cabinet. Preliminary discussions had already taken place on a shared vision, he noted, but warned against using populist politics to portray an inequitable distribution of power as legitimate and presenting it to the public as such.

On revenue distribution, Pire said that although the Kurdistan Region might not be facing the threat of famine, there was widespread dissatisfaction over the lack of fairness in how revenues were allocated.

He stressed that ensuring equitable distribution across all governorates was a fundamental responsibility of official institutions, adding that development throughout the region must proceed fairly and systematically, without discrimination.

Pire also highlighted the importance of safeguarding the Kurdistan Region’s constitutional status and existing achievements while continuing to pursue the implementation of outstanding constitutional provisions, particularly Article 140.

“We possess a key to safeguarding the entity of the Kurdistan Region: preserving our current gains, especially those enshrined in the Constitution, while simultaneously striving for the implementation of provisions that remain unfulfilled, most notably Article 140,” he said.

Turning to relations with Baghdad, Pire said issues concerning the Kurdistan Region were frequently used as leverage during discussions on constitutional amendments.

Commenting on the situation in Syria, he said hostility towards the Kurds had extended even to the dead, citing the incident involving the statue of Saladin (Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi) in Damascus.

Concluding his remarks, Pire said tensions were gradually easing and that political forces had come to recognise that the region’s problems could not be resolved in isolation.

He called for collective efforts to confront shared threats while preventing any encroachment on the disputed territories.



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