As the Kurds bicker, Iraq’s federal government is regaining control
The Kurds largely have themselves to blame. Squabbling between their two feudal families—the Barzanis who rule the west and the Talabanis in the east—has intensified. Since 2017 their leaders have transferred power to brasher sons with clashing personalities. Their parties—the Barzanis’ Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Talabanis’ Patriotic Union of Kurdistan —fight over diminished resources. Their ministers often vote against each in the cabinet in Baghdad.
The Iraqi government in Baghdad is taking advantage of this rivalry to claw back the power it lost after the Kurds rose up against Iraq’s old dictator, Saddam Hussein, in 1991. It has started with money. Earlier this year the Supreme Court used an international arbitration ruling in Paris to outlaw Kurdish oil sales, stripping the Kurds of revenues they accrued from selling 450,000 barrels a day. Kurdish salaries now depend on the monthly allowance Baghdad pays the regional government.
Most damaging, perhaps, is the Iraqi state’s reassertion of legal supremacy. In May its Supreme Court declared Kurdistan’s decision to postpone elections unconstitutional and ordered the replacement of the Kurdish electoral commission with Iraq’s. Kurdistan is also losing its status as a haven for Iraqi activists on the run. Last year Kurdish security men arrested an Iraqi researcher working for an American think-tank and handed him over to Baghdad.
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