Now that 25% of the Kurdish people have given us the right to represent them in parliament, they want to know how Gorran is going to proceed from here.
In Gorran head quarter, conferences, meetings and discussions are held every minute since the election. We are planning that Gorran shall continue to work on the basis of a modern and active model instead of the party system that political work is usually based on.
Gorran is not a political party in the old meaning of the word. The word "party" has in Kurdistan taken the meaning of cheating, thieving and injustice. We will not form a politicical party with party members and hierarchy of a politburo. We are an organisation, an association of people that work for the same goal. We will work according to our program which will be based on the political platform we presented for the elections.
We will work actively among people, with the people. Our offices will be open for anyone. We want people to see us who work for Gorran as people working for the program - for the benefit of the people, not as party members working for a party and for the benefit of party members only. When people go to vote in the next election, they will vote for the program, not for a party.
We called ourselves Listi Gorran, the Change List, for the elections, and now we are in fact lacking a name for our organisation. We still are the Gorran, we still work for change in our program, so maybe we will call the organisation Program for Change.
August 9, 2009
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I have so far got two opposing views on the topic of " becoming a political organization"...
ReplyDeleteIf Change becomes a political organization it is good in that there will be no hope to take over PUK again. I think this will be particularly good as weak members of the party " especially those who left PUK because PUK was not doing them self-benefit" to go.
However, if Change decides to become a political party members may expect to be rewarded such as done now with PUK and PDK!
Although I know Mr Nawshirwan is against this, we have to be realistic that there will be times that members will put the "party" on pressure and pay them... especially fired members PUK-PDK. So this is the main reason why I dislike the idea of "political party".
Assuming my worries are addressed, it is very important that this organization will have a good democratic foundation: that is annual party conference ( and elections) , membership fees, codes of conduct, and two arms one excecutive and one monitory . The monitoring arm could request investigations with party members for behaviour and must be seperate from the party executive committe. More importantly I think the internal rules of the party must be revised and updated in the annual conference and voted on so that the party can become adaptable to changes of political environment.
I think one of the best party rule books is the Labour party Rule book: it can be found here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_Rule_Book
I have so far got two opposing views on the topic of " becoming a political organization"...
ReplyDeleteIf Change becomes a political organization it is good in that there will be no hope to take over PUK again. I think this will be particularly good as weak members of the party " especially those who left PUK because PUK was not doing them self-benefit" to go.
However, if Change decides to become a political party members may expect to be rewarded such as done now with PUK and PDK!
Although I know Mr Nawshirwan is against this, we have to be realistic that there will be times that members will put the "party" on pressure and pay them... especially fired members PUK-PDK. So this is the main reason why I dislike the idea of "political party".
Assuming my worries are addressed, it is very important that this organization will have a good democratic foundation: that is annual party conference ( and elections) , membership fees, codes of conduct, and two arms one excecutive and one monitory . The monitoring arm could request investigations with party members for behaviour and must be seperate from the party executive committe. More importantly I think the internal rules of the party must be revised and updated in the annual conference and voted on so that the party can become adaptable to changes of political environment.
I think one of the best party rule books is the Labour party Rule book: it can be found here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party_Rule_Book