ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq—The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), an obvious winner of the parliamentary elections, has decided to form a committee to visit other political parties, as the party’s initial step towards establishing the tenth cabinet.

The KDP’s Central Committee met on Saturday under the leadership of President Masoud Barzani, with the formation of the tenth cabinet being the meeting’s key focus. 

“In the Central Committee’s meeting, President Barzani tasked the politburo to form a committee to visit all the parties and political entities, to bring all the sides closer together for the formation of the government,” Chia Harki, a KDP official, told The New Region on Saturday. 

The committee will comprise the party’s top officials including politburo members, Harki said, adding the visitations will begin the next week. 

“The KDP does not have a veto against any sides or individuals,” according to a readout of the KDP Central Committee’s meeting, adding what matters to the KDP the most is “the formation of an inclusive government.”

After two years of delay and four times of rescheduling, the Kurdistan Region held its long-delayed parliamentary elections on October 20. Of 2,683,618 eligible voters, 2,087,972 cast their ballots, a 72-percent voter turnout. 

According to the official preliminary results announced by the Iraq Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC), the KDP emerged as the clear victor scoring over 800,000 votes, double than that of its nearest competitor, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).

According to the seat distribution projections, the KDP has secured 39 seats, followed by the PUK’s 23, and the New Generation’s 15, as the top three winners. 

Other parties have grabbed 18 seats, with seven seats going to the Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU), four seats to the Halwest (Stance) Movement, three seats to the Kurdistan Justice Group (Komal), two to People’s Front, the last two seats to the Change Movement and The Kurdistan Coalition. 

Soon after the preliminary results were announced, some of the political parties and independent candidates claimed there was electoral fraud in the process, deciding to lodge complaints against the entire process at the Iraqi federal court in Baghdad.

Komal officially on Saturday announced they were boycotting the parliament, nor would they join the next government.

Other parties including Halwest, the People’s Front, and The Change Movement have also rejected the preliminary results.

The KIU, however, has not had any objection to the results but already announced they would not join the government. 

The international community has urged the winning political parties of the Kurdistan Region to swiftly form the government. 

“We urge political parties and civil society to support a peaceful transition and formation of a government without delay,” the US State Department told The New Region on Tuesday. 

In a meeting with the newly-appointed Germany Consul General to Erbil Albrecht von Wittke on Tuesday, the Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani stressed the need for the formation of the next government “as soon as possible."