17/03/2024

Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian political parties in Iraq reiterate rejection of Federal Supreme Court decision 

ERBIL — In response to the Federal Supreme Court decision to cancel the quota seats in the elections to the Parliament of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), six political parties of the Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian people, namely, Bethnahrin Patriotic Union Party (Huyodo Bethnahrin Athroyo, HBA), the Assyrian Patriotic Party, Abnaa al-Nahrain, the Assyrian Democratic Movement (Zowaa), and the Chaldean–Syriac–Assyrian Popular Council and the Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party, decided to boycott the parliamentary elections.

“The Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian people have paid the price of political conflicts over quota seats between influential parties,” the six parties declared in a joint statement, confirming their complete rejection to the decision.

The six parties considered that the Federal Supreme Court has taken the easiest way to solve the problem by abolishing the indigenous Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian people and canceling their representation in parliament, stressing that the Court thereby exceeded the constitutional articles.

The parties stressed that the rights of Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian people are written with the blood of martyrs and wounded, as well as the tears of displace Chaldean-Syriac-Assyrian people whom villages were burned and destroyed by the bloody tyranny.