The Governing Council has accomplished certain things, it needs to accomplish a lot more, and it needs to be doing executive functions, it needs to be organizing the constitutional progress, it needs to be organizing the electoral process.

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Debathification reversal has become stuck, essentially, and the constitutional review has made progress, but is stuck now on the key questions that divide the Kurds from other Iraqis.

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By placing a time limit on the suspension, the EU is hoping to continue applying pressure for progress to be sustained, which could possibly include constitutional change.

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