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Since the beginning of the uprising and the formation of the first Kurdistan Regional Government, the region has been in crisis of governance. Despite all the efforts made for change and democratization, a strong democratic political life could not be created and developed, every period of crisis hands us over to crisis and political subjugation hands us over to occupation.
Kurdistan voters wanted their region to be economically, security- and socially stable, and to enjoy the legitimacy that the people give to their political forces. Despite the fraud in their votes, they went to the polls five times.
The ruling political class has offered them a model of governance that was shared by the "brothers”, sharing positions, money and power, from border customs to oil and gas to eggs, cigarettes, and suet to unions and expired medicines. This has been the nature of their rule.
What is circulating in the public space is not a solution to the crisis, but a populist discourse of crusading and humiliating oneself with the aim of further monopolizing. Then, imprisonment of the voter's imagination between two harsh discourses of mutual erasure, which are problematic, is not a guarantee of voter mobilization.
The peak of the irony is the discourse of taking power from the PUK to the KDP, or vice versa, which is a false, deceptive and hypocritical discourse, contrary to the truth of the history of the "brother” coalition، Simpler: the discourse of the bankruptcy of the partnership of two groups for further monopoly and the use of capital on this ruin we have called country.
Unfortunate citizens, even if they have a weak memory, what they have not forgotten is that until last Wednesday, it was the PUK and KDP that ruled the region, not Nawai Nwe or Baray Gal.
Now, this nervous and intimidating environment that they have created in the campaign, these expansions in the spirit of urbanism and regionalism, then accusations and insults, must "Tell it to Ms. Halaw” *1. Because the practical product of political power, is not the PUK alone, nor the PDK alone, but both.
This war, all these masks, to prove who did not have power in which region, who was powerless in power, is the people’s distraction of the heart of the problem, which is the inability to establish a democratic political system that respects freedom and human dignity, rather than being reduced to who was the main actor and who was the secondary actor.
Charging extremism and violence and fabricating mountainous lies, sowing the seeds of fear and hatred, fragmenting the fabric of society, in order to secure a voice, a horror scene provides a ground for the director of this horror film to shed everyone’s blood, including free cinema.
*1/Tell it to Halawa Khan or Ms. Halaw.
Who was Halawa Khan?
There was a Jewish woman named (Halaw Binhas) who lived in the Jewish neighborhood of Sulaymaniyah. She had a small shop next to her house, selling only eggs, tobacco, loofas, cloves, nuts, and some other small items. Halaw Khan was deaf in both ears.
She couldn’t even hear loud noises! This hearing loss had made her the talk of the town.
If someone didn't understand another, they would say, "It’s like you’re talking to halaw”
Or if someone didn't want to listen to someone, he would say, 'Go tell it to Halaw Khan,' which means I don't want to listen to you.