Participation of the Kurds in the administration of the Iraqi state after 2003

Abstract

The political system in Iraq has witnessed a faltering level in the level of political participation of Iraqi parties and components since the revolution of July 14, 1958, led by Abdul Karim Qasim, and ending with the defunct Baath Party, as this historical stage of rule witnessed the control of a political party or group without allowing the rest of the parties or components to participate in governance. This is what placed the country in the midst of a conflict between these intellectual currents in an unpeaceful way that reached the point of using exclusion, killing, imprisonment, and confiscating all civil and political rights and freedoms, in order to ensure control over the Iraqi state, which continued until 2003, after the Iraqi opposition, with its various components, was able to overthrow the regime. Entering a new phase and a new constitution that allowed everyone to participate in the administration of the Iraqi state, including the Kurds.

Keywords: Iraq, Kurds, federal government, official institutions