Region of Iraqi Kurdistan reformist party overtake established dynasty in monumental vote

Iraq president’s party falls to third in Kurdish polls

AFP – An opposition movement bested Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s party in the autonomous Kurdish region’s parliamentary polls, shaking a decades-long duopoly on power, according to election results announced Saturday. Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. A dissident is a person who opposes official policy, yet for the purposes of Democracy Chronicles a dissident is a person who opposes the policy of a dictatorship. | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles