The parliamentary bloc of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) announced it will boycott an upcoming session of the Council of Representatives of Iraq, warning that attempts to proceed with a presidential election without broader political agreement threaten Iraq’s constitutional framework.

In a statement released on Friday, the KDP bloc said the positions of the President of Iraq and the Prime Minister of Iraq must be treated as a single national issue and resolved together through political consensus.

The bloc criticized what it described as attempts to impose a “fait accompli” by holding a parliamentary session to elect a president without returning to the principles of partnership and agreement among Iraq’s main political forces.

“We clearly state that the position of the President of the Republic and the candidate for Prime Minister are two inseparable national issues and must be resolved as a single, integrated package,” the statement said.

According to the KDP bloc, decisions regarding key leadership positions should emerge from serious and comprehensive dialogue among all political partners rather than through unilateral moves or by sidelining major stakeholders.

The party warned that bypassing the traditional consensus-based approach could undermine the constitutional understandings on which Iraq’s political system has operated since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

As a result, the bloc announced it will boycott the parliamentary session scheduled for the following day, arguing that the move is necessary to preserve the constitutional process and protect political stability.