The official of the public body in the political bureau of PUK, Mullah Bakhtiar said in a televised interview followed by " Shafaq News " , that his party will have a decisive stand if the mentioned candidate would be imposed as reality according to the election results.

Bakhtiar pointed out that his party would not allow it to preserve the prestige of the province, describing the candidate, Haval Abu Bakr as “a former Baathist.”

Bakhtiar stressed that if this candidate would be imposed on them, they will not be bound by his decisions .

Since the Iraqi parliamentary elections and provincial council elections of Kurdistan , media affiliated to PUK launched an attack on the candidate of Change movement to take over the post of Governor of Sulaymaniyah , accusing him that he was a member of the party of the former regime of Saddam Hussein, which is the dissolved Baath Arab Socialist Party.