ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – The Kurdistan Region’s opposition parties are set to meet on Tuesday to mull over the prospects of participating in Iraq’s parliamentary elections, scheduled for November later this year, as a coalition and make a final decision after meetings in the past have yielded no result due to disputes between the five sides.

The parties in question include political forces who fall outside of the Kurdistan Region’s government formation talks, the most notable of whom include the New Generation Movement, the Kurdistan Islamic Union, the Kurdistan Justice Group (Komal), and the Stance movement. The opposition sides shared a total of 27 seats between them in the Kurdistan Region’s parliamentary elections in October.

The ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), who were the winners of the Region’s October elections with 39 and 23 seats respectively, are also separately examining forming their own alliance in the Iraqi parliament as well, a senior KDP official told The New Region earlier in May, with an emphasis being placed on expanding outreach in “the Kurdistani territories” that fall outside of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG’s) administration.

“Today there will be a meeting held between the remaining parties to form an alliance; a decision will be made to determine whether a coalition will be formed or not,” Head of the Kurdistan Justice Group’s elections bureau Bestoon Hama Salih told The New Region on Tuesday.

Hama Salih revealed that the Stance Movement’s unwillingness to be in a coalition with the New Generation movement, as well as the New Generation’s strict requirements and conditions to participate, have so far been responsible for hindering the formation of the coalition, adding that “everything will be settled today.”

The November 11 parliamentary elections will establish the sixth term of the Iraqi legislature, with over 29 million people estimated to be eligible to participate in the vote.