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An opposition party in the Iraqi Kurdistan region called for demonstrations across northern Iraq on Saturday, to protest the expected postponement of parliamentary elections and massive unemployment. Shaswar Abdulwahid, the head of the New Generation Movement (NG), asked people to take the streets against the “tyrant” Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). The NG was founded by Abdulwahid, a former real estate businessman, in 2017 after he led a campaign against the failed Kurdish referendum for independence from Iraq that year and it has become an influntial opposition party in the region. “It …