Relationship in Crisis: Identifying Strategies for Kurdistan and Iraq to Re-establish Cooperation in the Context of Energy Dependency

... the Iraqi Kurdistan region, dissolve the parliament in line with the law and the constitution because the legislature has not elected new cabinet members within the constitutionally mandated timeframe. Since the regional elections in October 2024, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), the two main political parties, have been unable to reach consensus on the selection of a parliamentary speaker or the establishment of a new government. The second legal front, in which the oil ministry ...