A high official from Kurdish main opposition movement Change aka Gorran has called for reduction of Kurdistan Parliament’s quota system of Kurdish Christians and Turkmens and accuses them of not having any feelings for Kurdistan.

Omar Haji Enayat, A Gorran official and one of its candidates for this month’s Kurdish parliament election wrote an article in Awene Newspaper A Kurdish weekly paper based in Sulimani about the propose.

In his article Omar recommends that Christians and Turkmens are minority in the region and shouldn’t have that much seat in Kurdistan Parliament.

Currently there are 111 seats in the Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament, with eleven seats have been allocated to represent the Assyrian, Armenian, and Turkmen minority communities in the KRG-administered provinces.

“In the past they (Christians and Turkmens) has always supported Authorities first they supported Ba’athists regime and then current Kurdish rulers and that’s why we can’t count on their nationalistic feelings”, Enayat writes.

And a Christian politician criticizes the Gorran official’s recommendations and said they were expecting different proposals from the Change Movement.

“We expected more from those officials and other Kurdish officials to increase minority rights not to decreased”, said, Romeo Hakkari, one of the Christian official in the region.

Furthermore a Turkmen MP in Kurdistan Parliament thinks the Gorran official’s recommendation is an appropriate.

“The views of Mr. Enayat is a prove that there aren’t any understanding for harmony and brotherhood and prosperity”, said Turkmen MP, Yashar Najmadin in Erbil