Today, Sunday, in a televised press conference in the Kurdistan Parliament in Erbil, twelve lawmakers of the Kurdistan Parliament, MPs from all parties except the KDP and PUK announced their resignation. Abdulstar Majid, a Justice Group lawmaker, spoke on behalf of the leaving MPs to protest the extension of the parliament.

On October, 9 the Kurdistan Parliament voted to extend its life by a year, as the parties had not agreed on a date to hold election, which would have left the parliament in legal vacuum.

In the briefing Majid said, "we candidly expressed our opposition to the extension of the parliament’s expired term and have made our position clear before." The MPs vetoed the postponement during the assembly’s session to prolong its legal life.

"Just as the parliament’s term is over, the government, presidency, governorate councils, and electoral commission’s terms are over as well, and this makes all governing institutions illegitimate," Majid added in the statement.

Remaining parliament factions have planned to replace the outgoing MPs with the candidates that had less votes than the winning candidates in the previous election. 

There are five extensions since the establishment of the Kurdistan Parliament in 1992, and a total of the Parliament has extended its life on more than one occasion. The second term of Parliament was supposed to end on June 4, 2009, but the political parties agreed to extend it for over two months. Parliament’s third term was to expire legally on August 20, 2013, but the political parties opened it for seventy days.  The current term of the parliament would have ended on November 6, 2022.