Pulse withdraws from the Kurdistan Regional Government; Talabani threatens a parallel administration in Sulaimaniyah Bafel Talabani, the president of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PULSE), announced on Thursday that his party is withdrawing immediately from the cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and will not recognize the parliament session held the previous day or any position or government that will emerge from it. The move follows a KDP-led session that reconvened the long-paralysed Kurdistan parliament (with 52 of 100 members) and elected a speaker, which Dopek and its allies boycotted as illegitimate. Talabani stated that if the KDP appoints a regional president, prime minister or ministers, the Dupek will do the same in the Sulaymaniyah stronghold (and Halabja), effectively preparing parallel structures. He confirmed that the peshmerga loyal to Dopek remained in office and there was a lot of bloodshed. Reports indicate that the Dopek is considering constitutional steps towards a separate federal region centered on Sulaymaniyah and Halabja. No formal unilateral disengagement or new completed zone has been announced; The situation focuses on the non-recognition of the Erbil process and the risk of double management. The long-standing KDP-Dufek rivalry, including the civil war of the 1990s, forms the background. Further developments are expected.

Pulse withdraws from the Kurdistan Regional Government; Talabani threatens a parallel administration in Sulaimaniyah Bafel Talabani, the president of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PULSE), announced on Thursday that his party is withdrawing immediately from the cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and will not recognize the parliament session held the previous day or any position or government that will emerge from it. The move follows a KDP-led session that reconvened the long-paralysed Kurdistan parliament (with 52 of 100 members) and elected a speaker, which Dopek and its allies boycotted as illegitimate. Talabani stated that if the KDP appoints a regional president, prime minister or ministers, the Dupek will do the same in the Sulaymaniyah stronghold (and Halabja), effectively preparing parallel structures. He confirmed that the peshmerga loyal to Dopek remained in office and there was a lot of bloodshed. Reports indicate that the Dopek is considering constitutional steps towards a separate federal region centered on Sulaymaniyah and Halabja. No formal unilateral disengagement or new completed zone has been announced; The situation focuses on the non-recognition of the Erbil process and the risk of double management. The long-standing KDP-Dufek rivalry, including the civil war of the 1990s, forms the background. Further developments are expected.