Open AccessKURDISTAN PARLIAMENT: FORMATION OF A DE JURE INSTITUTION IN A DE FACTO STATE
Author(s) -
Mohammedali Yaseen Taha,
Angela Movileanu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
academic journal of nawroz university
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2520-789X
DOI - 10.25007/ajnu.v10n4a1263
Subject(s) - parliament , institution , legitimacy , de facto , political science , legislature , state (computer science) , democracy , law , public administration , politics , algorithm , computer science
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?