Abubakir said on Thursday, March 22, that he had sent a letter to KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani and Deputy Premier Qubad Talabani late December 2017 regarding the current situation in the region.

He stated that the situation was the reflection of the crises and the unresolved issues of the last 26 years.

“Trust between civilians and the authority as well as the institutions is in the lowest level,” the letter read.

“Services, main basics of life, payment, job opportunities and budget of the projects as well as capitalism are in their lowest level,” the letter stated.

The governor of Sulaimani further said the sectors of education, high education, health, agriculture, police and Asayish (security) are “ignored” and the people do not “trust” banks and financial systems.

“The government is pictured as the source of the crises, not as the resolver of the crises,” Abubakir added.

According to NRT the governor noted that the Kurdistan Region is facing five “serious threats” which are “clashes between armed forces and protesters, civil war, two administrations or even two regions, return of federal power and imposing armed forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic Party in their areas.”

He also said all the sectors of service, economy, finance, administration, law and society would halt if the issues and the crises were not resolved immediately.

“The military and political power will continue in the cities. There will be no meaning of the government’s institutions, civil struggle and rule of law,” the governor stated in the letter regarding unresolved issues and crises.

“Clashes and conflicts sourced from hunger, injustice, lack of payment and failure of political model-security not state-civil will increase,” he added.

The situation will lead to civil war and social clashes, Abubakir wrote in the letter for KRG. Social and political security will also face threats.

“The Kurdistan Region will face two administrations and two regions,” he said in his letter regarding continuity of the crises and issues.

“The federal power will be reimposed on the Kurdistan Region and there will be no entity under KRG name.”

Abubakir hoped justice, freedom, peace, better life, tranquility, trust and rule of law will return to the Kurdistan Region.

The KRG’s economic issues began early in 2014 when then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stopped budget payments to Erbil over its attempts to sell its oil independent from Baghdad.

Salaries for KRG employees have been plagued by delays since 2014 and Kurdish authorities have repeatedly said they cannot make payments due to the crises affecting the region.

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