Polls in Iraqi Kurdistan open for regional election

Iraqi Kurds began voting in a parliamentary election in their semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq on Sunday, following repeated delays.

The vote is to elect 100 lawmakers who will then pick a parliament speaker, a president and a prime minister for Iraqi Kurdistan, which gained self-rule in 1991.

The parliamentary elections, originally supposed to be held in 2022, have been repeatedly delayed due to disagreements between the two dominant parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.