TOPSHOT - Iraqi Kurds wave flags and a poster of Massud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), during an electoral rally for the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), at the Franco Hariri Stadium, in Arbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region on September 25, 2018. - Campaigning kicked off for a parliamentary election in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region amid political divisions a year after hopes for independence were dashed. Around 673 candidates from 29 political movements have thrown their hats into the ring hoping to secure one of 111 seats in Kurdistan's parliament at the election on September 30. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP)