Fire response from the PDK block: The Peshmerga forces possess constitutional legitimacy according to Article 121

ARK News.. The Kurdistan Democratic Party block in the Iraqi parliament considered some calls to include the Peshmerga forces with the issue of "restricting weapons to the state", an attempt to mix papers and evading the application of the provisions of the Iraqi constitution.

Block spokesman, Dr. Aram Palti, said in a statement, on Saturday, (BasNews) has received a copy of it. There have been points and people trying to shuffle the cards by calling them to include the Peshmerga forces with the issue of restricting weapons to the state. "

Adding "at a time when these people are trying to evade the application of the constitution and this mass demand, which prevents society from entering into a state of anarchy, by confusing forces operating within the state and those that lack constitutional and legal legitimacy, so that this constitutional requirement is not applied ".

Noting, "We would like to remind them that the Peshmerga forces, in addition to its militant history and massive sacrifices for the liberation of Iraq from the yoke of a dictatorship, are forces that possess constitutional legitimacy according to Article 121, Fifth paragraph, and if there are people who do not believe in the constitution or do not understand it, or do not like the acquired rights of the people of the Kurdistan Region, then we stress once again the necessity to obey the supreme law in the country and not to renounce the socio-political contract agreed upon by the Iraqis in 2005 to build a federal state based on democracy and human rights. "Stressing by saying, "Everyone must be aware that the authority of the state administration is the constitution, and that we will not obey outside the constitutional frameworks of the mood of the person who was, and the clock cannot go back, and that the constitutional legal rights of the people of Kurdistan are not negotiable and political deals."

The Kurdish Peshmerga forces are considered one of the most effective forces on the ground in combating terrorism, and since 2014 they have defended more than a thousand kilometers from the borders of the Kurdistan Region in the face of the terrorist organization ISIS, which occupied large areas of Iraq and Syria, and it is also part of the Iraqi defense system under the constitution .

A spokesman for the Kurdistan Democratic Party block (largest Kurdish block) said, "On the other hand, we would like to show the Iraqi public opinion that we have not entered yet into the details of forming the government in terms of ministries and people who will manage these ministries, but we confirm that this decision will be taken in Kurdistan and in consultation with the Prime Minister-designate, without accepting the guardianship of a person or party with known goals and objectives. "

The statement concluded by saying that "the national interest today requires relying on the logic of reason and adherence to the constitution, and the management of the country through national partnership without fabricating crises, as the country is going through a sensitive stage that requires the concerted all national efforts that are keen on the stability of the country."

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