Voters In Iraq's 3 Kurdish Regions Hold Parliamentary ElectionsIraqi Kurds — close allies of the U.S. — held elections Sunday. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:Voters in Iraq's three Kurdish regions went to the polls yesterday to elect a new regional parliament. Jane, I understand there are no official results yet, but any indication as to what a new Kurdish parliament could look like? But the interesting thing is there are opposition parties, including one that didn't even exist in the last elections five years ago. Here's an election observer named Shadman Barzanji from the opposition Gorran party, an older party, explaining why he thought voters were rejecting those traditional parties.