On November 3, 2022, the 14th Congress of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) began its work in Duhok with the presence of 1022 delegates out of 1065 delegates who were eligible to participate in the congress did. . . .
. Decision to hold the Fourteenth Congress
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Leadership Council approved the decision to hold the 14th Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) on December 18, 2020 at the headquarters of the Political Bureau in Pirmam.
Preparations for the Fourteenth Congress
For the purpose of holding the fourteenth congress, it was decided to form a seven-member committee consisting of four members of the Political Bureau and three members of the PKK Leadership Council. as follows:
1- Mahmoud Mohammed Mahmoud, member of the Political Bureau
2- Ezadin Mohammed Abdullah (Ezadin Barwari), member of the Political Bureau
3- Jaafar Ibrahim Haji Piro (Jaafar Emini), member of the Political Bureau
4- Christopher Yalda Torkhan (Rebwar Yalda), member of the Political Bureau
5- Hemn Ahmad Salih (Hemn Hawrami), member of the leadership council
6- Chenar Saad Abdullah, member of the leadership council
7- Ali Tatar Tofiq Nerwayi, member of the leadership council
In the meeting of December 20, 2020, the Preparatory Committee held its first meeting at the headquarters of the Political Bureau and the topic of the meeting was on the definition of the party, program, party structure.
1. Political team
2. Legal Team
3- Administrative and financial team
4- Social and Service Team (Logistics)
After this date, on March 9, 2020, the coronavirus pandemic spread all over the world, including the Kurdistan Region, and caused the postponement of the fourteenth congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
Election of Delegates to the Fourteenth Congress On May 8, 2022, the process of electing delegates to the Congress (Internal Conference) was decided and for this purpose a committee of 21 members to supervise it The members include Dr. Idris Hadi, Chairman of the Committee, Najat Hassan, Deputy Chairman, Aras Tawfiq, Ihsan Amedi, Fariq Farooq, Bakhtiar Haider, Reving Harori, Ali Balo, Hoshyar Sadiq, Adel Botani, Hersh Fatah, Fairuz Taha Akreyi, Sirwan Kakeyi, Arsalan Hamademin and Naji Ahmad, Brusk Star Qadir, Nateq Quriaqus (Branch 14), Star Sadiq, Arsalan Hamademin, Dakhil Qasim Hassun (former governor of Sinjar), Dildar Salih Hama, Hassan Mirani was formed. On June 19, 2022, the committee met with President Massoud Barzani and members of the Political Bureau to discuss the mechanism of conducting the elections.
The election process began on August 27, 2022 in the PKK branches and each organization was assigned an electoral district and special committees were formed for this task in all five provinces in the Kurdistan Region and three committees outside Kurdistan (Baghdad, Europe, USA).
Congress Management Committee November 3, 2022:
1- Dr. Naseeh Ghafoor Ramazan, Chairman of the Committee
2- Isa Ahmad Agha
3- Dr. Jabar Qadir
4- Dr. Abdulfattah Ali Botani
5- Mustafa Goran
6- Waheeda Yaqo
On May 8, 2022, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leadership council decided to hold the fourteenth congress of the party. . . .
To implement this decision, the congress preparatory committee was formed to elect the congress representatives from among the party members in the provincial leadership councils, branches, regions, central offices, departments, centers and institutions of the party. On a proportional basis, one representative for every 1,000 party members in the presence of two-thirds of the organizations of the body. After the parliamentary elections on September 7, 2022, the PKK Political Bureau held its last regular meeting on October 23, 2022 and the next day, October 24, 2022, the last meeting of the leadership council was held They agreed on a deadline. According to the decision, the fourteenth congress will begin on November 3, 2022 in Duhok with the presence of 1022 delegates out of 1065 delegates who were eligible to participate in the congress from all organizations of the PKK under the slogan of freedom, democracy and justice He did his job. The importance of the congress (fourteenth congress) was that the PKK after overcoming several difficult situations, including the four-year war imposed by ISIS, the war of occupation and the abortion of the Kurdistan Region's experience after the independence referendum on September 25, 2017 The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has been facing a one-sided war with its enemies, despite budget cuts by the Iraqi government, falling oil prices, the difficult economic situation in the Kurdistan Region and the spread of the coronavirus in 2020 Thirteenth, major changes had also taken place in the region and the world. . . .
The 14th Congress began with the reading of several verses from the Holy Quran and the Iraqi and Kurdistan national anthems. Then the congress management committee was elected and five committees were appointed for complaints, rules and programs. Then the congress continued its work by reading the reports, including the political and organizational reports, then in a secret ballot and 51 members and nine reserves of the Central Committee were elected. Although the voting was supposed to be electronic, but due to technical problems and at the request of most of the congress members, the voting was held manually and three polling stations were set up and counted. In the course of the process, the President Massoud Barzani by a majority vote of the members of the Congress Kurdistan Democratic Party He was re-elected. . . .
The congress made several significant changes to the party's structure, including the election of two vice presidents, the president's office became the president's secretariat and the monitoring committee directly by the party president, the Supreme Council The strugglers were established under the leadership of the PKK, increasing the proportion of women in the PKK leadership by 15%, and replacing the term leadership council Kurdistan Democratic Party The central committee was reused, the provincial councils became the provincial organizing bureaus and the number of members of the PKK political bureau was increased to 17 members The offices, institutions, centers and departments of the Political Bureau were renamed to departments and their composition is as follows: Department of Organization, Elections, Studies and Education, Culture and Media, Public Relations, Mass Organizations and Professionals, Administration, Finance, Investment and Projects. . . .
The 14th Congress concluded on November 6, 2022 with the issuance of the final report. . . .
The Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) consisted of the following members: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
1- Sidad Barzani
3- Fazel Mirani
5- Azad Barwari
7- Zaim Ali (Omar Osman)
8- Rebwar Yalda
9- Fuad Hussein
10- Arif Taifur
11- Kamal Kirkuk
12- Gohdar Shekho
14- Omid Khoshnaw
15- Ali Auni
16- Ashwaq Jaff
17- Hiwa Geylani
19- Sarbast Lazgin
20- Aras Huso Mirkhan
21- Ali Hussein
22- Amina Zakri
23- Dilshad Shahab
24- Sagvan Hello
25- Mohsin Kamal
26- Sirwan Barzani
27- Ali Tatar
28- Najat Ali
29- Zagros Fatah
30- Nuri Osman Sinjar
33- Omid Sabah
35- Jaafar Ibrahim
37- Hemn Hawrami
40- Sarbast Truanshi
41- Bland Ismail
42- Hamid Ali
43- Evin Hruri
44- Salar Osman
46- Ahmad Kani
47- Sanaw Faridoon Jawanroyi
48- Ari Nanakali
50- Vian Sulaiman
51- Vala Farid
52- Mahmoud Mahmoud Yazidi (At the end of the congress, due to the absence of any member of the Yazidi community, he was appointed to the central committee on the proposal of the chairman and by the vote of the congress delegates PKK Center). . . .
Reserve members of the PKK Central Committee at the Fourteenth Congress: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
1- Sasan Auni
4- Barwan Hamdi
5- Chia Mohammed Harki
The Political Bureau was formed at the first meeting of the PKK Central Committee: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
1- Fazel Mirani, Head of the Executive Committee of the Political Bureau
2- Sidad Barzani, member of the Executive Committee of the Political Bureau
3- Mahmoud Mohammed, Member of the Executive Committee of the Political Bureau
4- Hoshyar Zebari, Member of the Executive Committee of the Political Bureau
5- Azad Barwari, Member of the Executive Committee of the Political Bureau
6- Kamal Kirkuk, Member of the Political Bureau
7- Fariq Ali, member of the Political Bureau
8- Rebwar Yalda, member of the Political Bureau
9- Fuad Hussein, member of the Political Bureau
10- Arif Taifur, member of the Political Bureau
11- Ali Hussein, Member of the Political Bureau
12- Pashtiwan Sadiq, member of the Political Bureau
13- Nawzad Hadi, member of the Political Bureau
14- Sarbast Lazgin, member of the Political Bureau
15- Hemn Hawrami, Member of the Political Bureau
16- Hiwa Ahmad Mustafa, member of the Political Bureau
17- Amina Zakri , Member of the Political Bureau
Among the 17 members, five were elected as members of the Executive Committee of the Political Bureau as follows: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
1- Fazel Mirani, Head of the Executive Committee of the Political Bureau
2- Sidad Barzani, member of the Executive Committee of the Political Bureau
3- Mahmoud Mohammed, Member of the Executive Committee of the Political Bureau
4- Hoshyar Zebari, Member of the Executive Committee of the Political Bureau
5- Azad Barwari, Member of the Executive Committee of the Political Bureau
Decisions of the Congress:
1. The name of the President's Office was changed to the President's Secretariat.
2. Appointment of two deputies to the PKK leader under the name of vice presidents.
3. Changing the name of the leadership council to the central committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
4. The Central Committee shall consist of 52 members and 9 reserves.
5. The provincial leadership council was changed to the provincial organization bureau.
6. The Political Bureau consisted of 17 members of the Central Committee and the Executive Committee consisted of five members. The post of Secretary of the Political Bureau was changed to the head of the Executive Committee of the Political Bureau.
7. Establish a new body called the Supreme Council of Strugglers for the elderly leaders and strugglers of the PKK who need to perform their duties in their own body and will be consulted when necessary.
8. Both the Supreme Council of the Strugglers and the PKK Monitoring Committee are directly subordinate to the PKK leader.
9- The congress approved the administrators of the branch committee for 6 members, the administrators of the regional committee for 4 members, the head of the organization committee and 2 deputies.
10. The legal term of the PKK Congress is five years and the Central Committee may extend the term of the Congress by one year in case of emergency.
11. Awarding the late Barzani Medal to 76 members, personalities, revolutionaries and fighters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
Final Report of the 14th Congress:
The 14th Congress concluded on November 6, 2022 with the issuance of the final report. . . .
reference:
Archive of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Encyclopedia Board
