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Kurdistan Toilers' Party حزبی زەحمەتکێشانی کوردستان | |
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| Leader | Belên Ebdulla |
| Founded | 1985 (1985) |
| Split from | Kurdistan United Socialist Party |
| Ideology | Social democracy[1] Kurdish nationalism[2] Historical: Socialism |
| Political position | Center-left toleft-wing |
| Council of Representatives of Iraq: | 0 / 328 |
| Kurdistan Parliament: | 0 / 111 |
TheKurdistan Toilers' Party (Kurdish:حزبی زەحمەتکێشانی کوردستان,romanized: Hizbî Zehmetkêşanî Kurdistan, also known as Zahmatkeshan) was founded in 1985 by Qadir Ezîz and Ebdulxaliq Zengene and balen abdulla as a splinter of the short-lived allianceKurdistan United Socialist Party (HSYK), which had included theKurdistan Socialist Democratic Party, theSocialist Movement of Kurdistan and the two splinters of theSouth Kurdistan Movement.[3] They had belonged to the left wing of the party and had criticized the leadership for abandoning socialism in favor of tribal democracy.[4]
1985-1986, the party was known asKurdistan Socialist Party - Revolutionary Democratic Direction (Kurdish:حزبی سۆسیالیستی کوردستان- ئیتجاهی دیموکراتی شۆڕشگێڕ), before being renamed to Kurdistan Toilers' Party.[3] In the year 1990, it became a member of theIraqi Kurdistan Front. The same year,Mala Bakhtiyar's partyAlayî Şoriş (Banner of Revolution), which had split from thePatriotic Union of Kurdistan four years prior, merged into the Toilers' Party.[4] Following the1992 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election however, Mala Bakhtiyar and most of the former Alayî Şoriş leadership left the party and rejoined the PUK.[5] Over the last decades, the party has abandoned socialist rhetoric and became more moderate.
The former leader Qadir Ezîz left the party in October 2009 after losing an internal power struggle with the wing led by Belên Ebdulla and Se'id Xalîdewe.[6] He proceeded to found theKurdistan Future Party, also known asHizbî Ayînde,[7] before joining thePatriotic Union of Kurdistan in 15 July 2016.[6] The general secretary of the Kurdistan Toilers' Party now is Belên Ebdulla.[8]
The party published the newspaperAlayî Azadî or "Banner of Freedom" from 1986 onwards, which has been discontinued later. It also published the theoretical periodicalPêşkewtîn, meaning "Progress" in English, in 1986, which was cancelled after five issues. .[3] In 2003, it also had a TV station called "Voice of Kurdistan Toilers".[2] It was included in thePatriotic Union of Kurdistan-dominated government. It had poor relations with theKurdistan Democratic Party,[citation needed] but the party's headquarters were transferred to KDP-controlledErbil under the leadership of Ebdulla.[7]
The party is part of the so-calledJoint Working Committee of the Left of Kurdistan, alongside theCommunist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq and theMovement of the Democratic People of Kurdistan. Said committee released a statement in August 2022, calling on the elimination of "absolute centralism" in Iraq, as well as the adoption of a separate constitution for theKurdistan Region and the elections for theKurdistan Region Parliament and the regional councils to be held on time. Furthermore, the statement calls on the government to stop further privatizations, to provide the salaries of public servants on time and to adopt reforms that improve the economic and social development of the people of Kurdistan.[9]
In 2013, it gained one seat in theKurdistan Region Parliament[10] and one minister in the Kurdistan Regional Government.[citation needed] In 2018, it failed to win a seat again.[11]
Kurdistan Toilers' Party was part of theKurdistan Alliance Bloc ("Hawpeymanî Kurdistan", no. 372) that existed in theIraqi Parliament 2005-2010. The first listed candidate forSilêmanî Governorate for the party wasJalal Dabagh, a prominent Kurdish politician.[citation needed]
For the2024 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, the party joined an electoral alliance together with theKurdistan Communist Party – Iraq and theKurdistan Social Democratic Party. The alliance is called the Kurdistan Region Coalition.[12]
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