Political parties in Iraq

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This article lists political parties in Iraq.

Iraq is a multi-party system. Parties are commonly grouped by ideology/ethnic affiliation and by the group with which they were listed on the ballot of the 2005 Iraqi National Assembly election.

Contents 1 Parliamentary alliances and parties 2 Other parties 3 Illegal party 4 External links 5 See also

[edit] Parliamentary alliances and parties

• Shia parties on the United Iraqi Alliance list
  • Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (al-Majlis al-alalith-thaura l-islamiyya fil-Iraq) - led by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim
  • Islamic Dawa Party (Hizb al-Da'wa al-Islamiyya) - led by Nouri al-Maliki
  • Iraqi National Congress - led by Ahmed Chalabi
  • Islamic Fayli Grouping in Iraq - led by Muqdad Al-Baghdadi
• Kurdish parties on the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan list
  • Kurdistan Democratic Party (Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistanê) - led by Massoud Barzani
  • Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (Yaketi Nishtimani Kurdistan) - led by Jalal Talabani
  • Kurdistan Islamic Union (Yekîtiya Islamiya Kurdistan)
  • Kurdistan Toilers’ Party (Parti Zahmatkeshan Kurdistan)
  • Kurdistan Communist Party (Partiya Komunîst Kurdistan)
  • Assyrian Patriotic Party
• Secular parties on the Iraqi List (al-Qayimaal Iraqia)
  • Iraqi National Accord - led by Iyad Allawi
• The Iraqis list - led by Ghazi al-Yawer
• Iraqi Turkmen Front (Irak Türkmen Cephesi)) (same as Alliance of the Turkomen Front of Iraq?)
• National Independent Cadres and Elites
• People's Union (Ittihad Al Shaab)
  • Iraqi Communist Party - led by Hamid Majid Mousa
• Islamic Kurdish Society - led by Ali Abd-al Aziz
• Islamic Labour Movement in Iraq
• National Democratic Party (Hizb al Dimuqratiyah al Wataniyah) - led by Samir al-Sumaidai
• National Rafidain List
  • Assyrian Democratic Movement (Zowaa Dimuqrataya Aturaya)- led by Yonadam Kanna
• Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc
• The Upholders of the Message (Al-Risaliyun)
• Mithal al-Alusi List
• Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress

[edit] Other parties

• Secular parties
  • Communist Party of Iraq
  • Worker-Communist Party of Iraq
  • Leftist Worker-Communist Party of Iraq
  • Alliance of Independent Democrats - led by Adnan Pachachi
  • National Democratic Party - Naseer al-Chaderchi
  • Green Party of Iraq
  • Iraqi Scientific Humanitarian Committee
  • Iraqi Democratic Union
  • Federal Democratic Iraqi Nation Party

• Monarchist
  • Constitutional Monarchy Movement - led by Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein
  • Iraqi Hashemite Alliance - led by Sharif Maamoun Abd al-Rahmann al-Naisan
• Assyrian/Christian parties and lists
  • Alliance of the Two Rivers
  • National List of the Two Rivers
  • National Assyrian Alliance - led by Odisho Milko Kurkis
  • Assyrian Patriotic Party - on the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan list
  • Assyria Liberation Party
• Kurdish parties
  • Kurdistani Democratic Solution Party - led by Fa'aq Mohammed
  • Kurdistani Conservatives Party - led by Zyad Omar Khider Surchi
  • Islamic Union for the Philean Kurds of Iraq
• Turkish parties
  • National Turkomen Movement - led by Hassam Eddin Ali Wali
  • Turkmen People's Party
• Yazidi parties
  • Yazidi Future Movement
• Sunni parties
  • Iraqi Islamic Party - led by Mohsen Abdel Hamid

[edit] Illegal party

• Ba'ath Party

The Ba'ath party, which has an official name : The Party of Arabic Socialist Ba'ath, was founded on 7th of April 1947 in Syria.

[edit] External links

• List of political parties participating in December 2005 election
• Report on Iraq's New Political Map by the United States Institute of Peace

[edit] See also

• Index of political parties to browse parties by name
• List of political parties to browse parties by country
• List of political parties by ideology to browse parties by name
• Membership of internationals to browse parties by membership of internationals

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