KURDISTAN PARLIAMENT: FORMATION OF A DE JURE INSTITUTION IN A DE FACTO STATE

Authors

  • Mohammedali Yaseen Taha Department of Political Science, Nawroz University, Duhok, Kurdistan Region, Iraq (and Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Av. Professor Aníbal de Bettencourt, 9, LISBOA, Portugal)
  • Angela Movileanu Research Associate, CEI, IUL, Centro de Estudos Internacionais, ISCTE-Instituto Universitario De Lisboa, Portugal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25007/ajnu.v10n4a1263

Abstract

The Kurdistan Parliament – Iraq was established in 1992 and has increasingly gained legitimacy both inside and outside the region. The parliament is a unicameral legislative body in the northern part of Iraq recognized as a federal region officially known as Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). It has been functioning as a de jure institution in a de facto state, with a reasonably stable legislative capacity. The formalized procedures and legally established functions of this parliament are indicative of a functional institution, albeit with long periods in which the main parliamentary parties do not reach the required consensus to legislate. After five election cycles, five parliamentary terms and having passed hundreds of laws, are the region and its representative institution able to pass the test of being a minimal democracy?

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Published

2021-12-31

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Yaseen Taha, M., & Movileanu, A. (2021). KURDISTAN PARLIAMENT: FORMATION OF A DE JURE INSTITUTION IN A DE FACTO STATE. Academic Journal of Nawroz University, 10(4), 225–239. https://doi.org/10.25007/ajnu.v10n4a1263

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Vol. 10 No. 4 (2021)

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