The administrative experience of Iraqi Kurdistan started as a result of the fact that the people in the region no longer wanted to live under the rule of former Iraqi regime following the popular uprising that took place on March 1991. In the past, the people did not ask for such a thing. Because the aforesaid regimes had committed horrible murders against these people by encroaching their political, national and humanitarian rights in an environment of deprivation and tyranny. Such that, these murders had almost reached genocide level in the Halabja and Anfal operation. Therefore, the people in KRG surged into neighboring countries on late March and early April 1991, after the Iraqi troops returned to Kurdish regions. As a result of this, the international community intervened and decided to form safe zones in northern Iraq for Kurds. After the Iraqi regime took a decision for all political, military and civilian state institutions and organizations to withdraw from Sulaymaniya, Erbil and Duhok on October 1991, “de facto” administrations emerged in the areas where Kurds seized control. Those steps encouraged Kurdish political parties to fill the authority gap and establish a democratic political regime based on the votes of electors in the areas under their own control.
The first democratic election was held on May 1992 to elect the leader of National Assembly and Kurdish liberation movement for the administration of the areas where Kurds seize control. As a result of this election, the government was established and civilian and judicial institutions and organizations started to be created in the region. However, the civil war and conflicts between the two major parties; Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) prevented further development of this young democratic experience. As a result, autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan was divided into two parts, each controlled by different political parties.
At this point, analyzing the problems before the democratic process besides the political system in Iraqi Kurdistan, and solution to be offered to these problems becomes important.
