Positions As
feminism was a part of the party's ideology, it had the highest number of female candidates of all parties in Kurdistan during the parliamentary elections in 2013. According to the director of the election office of the PÇDK, Hassan Judi, it is one of the major goals that women's participation won't be below 50%. In 2013, the party's list was headed by a woman, Najiba Mahmood. Even if the party denies that it is a front organisation for the PKK fighters, it admits a shared ideology with them. The central person in the leftist Kurdish movement of the PKK and offshoots is
Abdullah Öcalan. Historically a Marxist organisation, the party re-evaluated its ideology with the end of the
Soviet Union. Today the party is, amongst other influences,
democratic socialist and follows the works of Abdullah Öcalan as the PKK does.
International relations Although the PKK is seen as a terrorist organisation in the
United States, the PÇDK is neutral towards America. "We used to consider the U.S. as the greatest of all imperialist powers. We were a Marxist organization dedicated to a socialist future. But after the Soviet Union collapsed we began a process of re-evaluating Marxism, and PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan indeed wrote several books on this subject," said the former leader of the party, Fayaq Golpi. He added that "in an era of globalization, you cannot ignore real[i]ties. We then went for democracy and federalism instead. After the liberation of Iraq and the removal of
Saddam Hussein, so many things changed-especially the issue of the USA." ==See also==