There were a number of meetings ahead of the May 1 registration deadline to form a united list composed of parties from the Kurdistan Region, but both the KDP and New Generation declined to join.
Goran said during a press conference that the KDP has approved 55 candidates , including ones who will run in constituencies in Baghdad, Nineveh, Anbar, Wasit, and Karbala.
The party will field five candidates in Sulaimani governorate, including four women, in addition to eleven candidates in Duhok and fifteen in Erbil.
By running mostly women in Sulaimani, which is dominated by its rivals the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Change Movement (Gorran) and traditionally the area with the weakest KDP support, the party is hoping to exploit the women’s quota in the Council of Representatives, which mandates that 25 percent of all lawmakers must be women.
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