Kurdish Opposition Parties Weigh Joint Alliance as PUK, KDP Explore Unified Front for Iraqi Elections

For the upcoming Iraqi parliamentary elections, the five Kurdish opposition parties represented in the Kurdistan Parliament are deliberating the formation of an alliance to contest the elections. This comes as the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) has proposed a separate alliance with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and possibly other Kurdish factions in the disputed territories to contest the elections.