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Iraqi Kurdish opposition party Gorran calls on leader Barzani to step down Iraqi Kurdish opposition party calls on leader Barzani to step down
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Gorran, a main opposition party to Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani, called on Sunday for his resignation, and for a "national salvation government" to be formed to deal with crisis pitting the Kurds and the central Iraqi authorities. Gorran, or the Change Movement, blamed Barzani for the "disaster" facing the Kurds after the loss on Oct. 16 of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, captured by Iraqi forces in retaliation to a Kurdish independence referendum held last month despite warnings from Baghdad and neighbouring Iran and Turkey. "The Kurdistan presidency must be dissolved and a national salvation government be formed to overcome the current situation," said a statement published by the party leadership after meeting in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya. Gorran supports the right of Iraq's Kurds for self-determination but it opposed holding the referendum on Sept. 25, saying the timing was ill-chosen. (Reuters) Iraqi Kurdistan’s main opposition party, Gorran has called for the resignation of local Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani and the formation of a “national salvation government” in order to deal with the stand-off between the Kurds and Iraq’s central authorities. Barzan is blamed for the crisis that has followed the loss of the Kurdish province of Kirkuk to Iraqi forces, which advanced in retaliation to last month’s independence referendum. While supporting independence, Gorran was opposed to holding the referendum, considering it ill-timed.