PUK’s “Other Options”? Just Power Games Repackaged

 

Twana Muhammed

Bafel Talabani recently warned that if the future cabinet fails, the PUK has “many other options” a bold statement. But let’s be honest: the PUK has been playing this same card for three decades, and every time, it folds.

This is the same PUK that once promised to challenge KDP domination, only to hand it more power in parliament. The same PUK that ran election campaigns full of fire, then quietly stepped aside. The same PUK that swore it would never allow KDP control over gas resources only to now sign billion-dollar energy deals with American companies on that very gas.

Time and again, the PUK claims to resist, but only ends up reinforcing the very system it criticizes.

And what are these “other options” Talabani speaks of? More secret deals? More family bargains? In reality, none of them involve the people. The PUK doesn’t offer alternatives it offers loyalty to a broken two-party system that enriches a few and abandons the many.

If the PUK is serious about change, it must start by changing itself. Until then, its “options” are nothing more than old tricks dressed in new rhetoric.