SULAIMANI,— The New Generation Movement NGM (Cûłanewey Newey Nwê) has taken the Kurdistan Regional Government to Iraq’s Federal Court, arguing that the government’s legal mandate expired three years ago, party leader Shaswar Abdulwahid said Thursday.
Speaking at a press conference on July 9, 2026, Abdulwahid said the lawsuit was filed that day in Baghdad.
The filing asks the court to declare the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), a caretaker administration and to void every decision it has made since its term ran out.
Abdulwahid said the government’s legal term ended on July 10, 2023. He argued that decisions made after that date, including tax increases, higher electricity rates, and oil and gas contracts, carry no legal standing. He asked the Federal Court to cancel them.
He also spoke about the region’s political balance, saying the Barzanis’ Kurdistan Democratic Party KDP, which holds 39 seats, should not control every senior post in government.
He said the KDP must give up either the presidency of the Kurdistan Region or the office of prime minister.
Abdulwahid noted that his movement’s 15 seats, combined with those held by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, total more than the KDP’s seat count. He said his party’s seats alone are enough to shift the current balance of power.
The statements come after a political deal reached July 2, 2026, in Sulaimani between the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the New Generation Movement.
The two groups said the agreement aims to reshape how Iraq’s Kurdistan Region is governed and to put ordinary people’s interests before those of political elites and ruling families.
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