MESOP FLASH : Syria Kurds from local council to hold elections / Syrian Kurdish parties affiliated with Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani have stated they will boycott the polls.

1.6.2014 – BasNews – The Syrian Kurds that are controlling the northern region of the country have formed an election council to hold polls in the three cantons they have formed after they took control of the regions due to civil war in the country.

According to Hawar News the Kurds’ elections’ independent high council unveiled in Amuda, a Kurdish city in the northern Syria, the symbol and the logo of the polls and said an-18-member committee has been established to hold the elections. The report is at a time that Syria is preparing its self for the June 3 presidential elections. The logo is in three languages of Kurdish, Arabic and Syriani.

According to the recently formed law in the three cantons, only parties are allowed to take part in the polls that have officially accepted the cantons that are under the control of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Syrian Kurdish parties affiliated with Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani have stated they will boycott the polls.