KRG Envoy: ‘Majority rule’ would contravene Iraq constitution
Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, the Kurdistan Regional Government Representative to the United States, spoke at a conference on the future of Iraq and Syria after the defeat of the Islamic State, hosted by the US Institute of Peace.
In her public remarks, Abdul Rahman criticized the concept of “majority rule,” now being raised by some Shia politicians in Baghdad, describing it as a “step backward.”
The Kurdish envoy emphasized that Iraq is a country of multiple ethnicities, religions, and sects. Arabs and Kurds are “the two main components,” but there are also Turkmen and Assyrian, as well as Sunnis, Shias, Christians, and Yezidis.
“The Iraqi constitution,” I believe, “envisions a federal state that is democratic” and that “enables people of whatever ethnicity or background” to have a voice “in how they are governed,” she affirmed.
