It was emphasized the Kurds should be able to express their Kurdish identity and legal barriers prohibiting this should be lifted.[2] After the 1991 general election, the SHP became a partner in the coalition government and İnönü became the deputy prime minister (Nov. 20). In the coalition agreement, the SHP insisted on the lifting of the ban on pre-1980 parties which were dissolved by the military government of the early 1980s.