The Kurdistan Region’s ruling party on Sunday registered to participate in the Region’s upcoming parliamentary elections upon seat allocation demands being partially met.

The spokesperson of the Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) on Sunday confirmed to The New Region that the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) has registered their party to participate in the Kurdistan Region’s upcoming parliamentary elections.

The news was further confirmed by the party’s electoral team member Saib Harni, who told The New Region that “KDP officially registered at the Electoral Commission at 12 pm.”

Harni added that the KDP will prepare for the elections and try to submit its list of candidates by the June 13 deadline.

The KDP’s decision to participate in the elections comes after Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council in May decided to allocate five quota seats to the Region’s ethnic minorities.

The return of the five seats came  in response to a complaint from a Christian party in the Kurdistan Region after a Federal Supreme Court ruling in February removed the 11 seats allocated for minority components in the Regional parliament.

The KDP had previously expressed concern over the removal of quota seats, as well as the distribution of seats across the different voting constituencies.

The KDP announced that they would withdraw from the elections, demanding that changes be made to the amount of quota seats and the seats allocated for the constituencies.

Months of negotiations were to no avail, the Region’s elections that were originally scheduled for June 10, were canceled with the Kurdistan Region Presidency still to announce a new date for the elections.