Kuzhein Bahadin Mahmood – Activists
Welcome to the land of broken promises – the Kurdistan Region, where the government is still missing, the people are suffering, and Masrour Barzani is too busy playing emperor in his marble palace to notice.
Since October 20, 2024, the region has been waiting for a new cabinet – not a functioning one, not a visionary one – just any cabinet. But Masrour, the self-declared CEO of Kurdistan Inc., is far too occupied polishing his image, expanding his private city, and preparing his spoiled, zero-experience son for a future in the military he never served a single day in.
What a brilliant strategy: fail as prime minister, then turn the government into a family inheritance. Masrour has treated the KRG like his grandfather’s land – a personal empire, where the people’s votes are just numbers to ignore, and ministries are family heirlooms.
While hospitals collapse, salaries vanish, and youth flee the country, Masrour is busy landscaping the gardens of his empire and posing with generals like a Hollywood villain. He hasn’t solved a single crisis – unless you count solving how to get richer off the backs of the people.
Every year around this time, the ghost of Sardasht Osman returns – the young journalist kidnapped and murdered after daring to write the truth about the Barzani family’s power games. And every year, Masrour pretends it’s just another day, while his hands dig deeper into the tools of repression. Arrest journalists. Threaten critics. Intimidate anyone who dares ask, “Why are we still waiting for a government?”
And then there’s the “negotiation process.” What a joke. Masrour and his cheerleaders keep promising talks, agreements, and unity. Talks with who? Himself? The only “agreement” that seems to exist is between his ego and his ambition.
Let’s be honest: this isn’t leadership. This is a royal disaster, a slow-motion dictatorship painted in the colors of democracy. Masrour Barzani failed miserably in his first term, and now, somehow, he’s on the brink of doing it again – this time with even more arrogance, fewer results, and a son waiting in the wings to carry the crown.
Kurdistan deserves a leader. Instead, we got a luxury developer with a military costume, a man obsessed with power, allergic to accountability, and completely detached from the pain of the people. As long as Masrour Barzani sits on the throne of delusion, the cabinet will remain a myth, the people will suffer, and the so-called “government” will be nothing but a family photo album.