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Nearly four decades ago, Khoury Nawzang was called "The Partie's Valley” each Kurdish party had a tent in the valley. Today, Sulaymaniyah is going to be like the “The Parties Valley.” Instead, the tents, this time they are constructing new buildings as their offices. Among the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Change movement, and other desperate people from the political situation, there are attempts of establishing several new parties. While the last election, only 27% of the city voted for the party's candidates. 
There is more information in this report regarding the new wave of political movements.

The Partie’s Valley
At the end of the 1970s and the early 1980s, when Ayatollah Khomeini, the Iranian political and religious leader, announced “Jihad” against Kurds, the borders between south and east of Kurdistan became a shelter for gathering the Kurdish opposition parties from east, south, and even north of Kurdistan. The area was called the parties valley while they all had set up tents near each other.
This valley belongs to the south of Kurdistan, which PUK had authority in that area. Mam Jalal Talabani, late Iraq, and PUK president had invited all his friends from Iraqi opposition to this valley. 
The parties which had tents in that valley were:
+ The Iraqi Communist Party
+ Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party
+ Sheik Izzadin Party
+ Revolutionary Group Of Kurdistan (Komala)
+ Democratic party of Kurdistan-Iran
+ Chrikay Fedaei, 
+Ranjbaran
+ Alay Rzgary (north of Kurdistan), 
and with some other Iraqis opposition parties.

Will Sulaymaniyah become the partie’s valley?
After separating Nawshirwan Mustafa from the PUK and establishing the Change Movement in 2009, Sulaymaniyah is going to be like the partie’s valley. The number of political parties in the province is increasing continuously. 
Following the establishment of the Change Movement in 2009, Some other parties have established since then. 
+Tavgari Azadi, a political movement that belongs to PKK.
+ New Generation: established by a businessman Shaswar Abdul Wahid in 2018.
+ Coalition for Democracy and Justice: established by Barham Salih after he left the PUK. The same year he abandoned his new party and went back to the PUK
+ National Coalition, the remaining from Barham Salih's party, established in 2018 by Aram Qadir, former leader from an Islamic party, which is now called Justice Group.
+The National Reform Movement: it was established in 2019 by a group of leaders who isolated from the Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party.

These days Sulaymaniyah has the pain of delivering several new political parties. Perhaps none of the existing parties have been able to satisfy the people.
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the authority in this district, has been in a deep internal conflict for four months. Lately, the political bureau approved the co-president Bafel Talabani's decision to expel Lahur Sheik Janji, the other co-president, from the party. This decision has left no other choices for Sheik Jngi other than to create a new political movement outside of PUK.

Why Sulaymaniyah?
What has attracted these trends for building new political parties in Sulaymaniyah is the broad opposition voices in the area. That means the other exciting parties were not able to bring people together under one umbrella. 
In the last Iraqi election, the voter turnout was 42% percent in Sulaymaniyah. Approximately 600 thousand people voted out of 1 million 425 thousand registered voters. From this number, only 390 thousand voters voted for the party's candidates, which means only 27% of voters voted for the parties.