On Monday, the Coalition for Democracy and Justice (PUK), Gorran Movement, Kurdistan Islamic Group and Kurdistan Islamic Union formed an alliance with 11 seats in the Iraqi parliament.

Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Jamal Kojar, a leading member of the alliance and a member of the Kurdistan Islamic Union, said support for the largest parliamentary bloc is conditional to concluding official agreements to fulfil Kurdish demands, Anadolu news agency reported.

Kojar went on citing the demands as “constitutional entitlements related to article 140, oil, border crossings and salaries of the [Kurdish] Peshmerga forces.”

Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution calls for settling the situation in disputed regions between Baghdad and Erbil and giving the population the right to choose to remain under the federal government or join the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq.

Kojar asserted that the Kurdish parties adopted a new approach of having officially announced agreements to bind the other political side to fulfill the Kurdish demands.

Baghdad and Erbil has been at odds over disputed areas, administrating oil wealth, financing and arming the Peshmerga forces.

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