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!raqi Political Parties
Political Parties
Party 2005
Election 2006
Cabinet 2010
Election
Seats % Seats %
325 325 325
Secular Nationalist Parties
National Iraqi List / Iraqiya 25 9.09% 6 13.04% 91
Iraqi Nation List (Mithal al-Alusi) 1 0.36%
Total: 26 9.45%
Shi'a Parties
State of Law [Nuri al-Maliki] 89
Da'wa al-Islamiya Party
Iraqi National Alliance [al-Sadr] 70
United Iraqi Alliance UIA 128 46.55% 21 45.65%
Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq SCIRI/ISCI 5 10.87%
Da'wa al-Islamiya Party 1 2.17%
Da'wa Tandhim 3 6.52%
Sadrist Trend 4 8.70%
Islamic Action 1 2.17%
Hizbullah 1 2.17%
Independent 6 13.04%
Progressives 2 0.73%
Total: 130 47.27%
Sunni Parties
Accord Front / Tawafuq 44 16.00% 9 19.57%
Iraqi Islamic Party - IIP
Ahl al-Iraq (People of Iraq)
Iraqi Dialogue Front 11 4.00%
Liberation and Reconciliation 3 1.09%
Total: 58 21.09%
Kurdish Parties
Kurdistan Alliance 53 19.27% 8 17.39% 43
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan PUK 4 8.70%
Kurdish Democratic Party KDP 4 8.70%
Kurdistan Islamic Union 5 1.82%
Total: 58 21.09%
Minority Parties
Two Rivers List (Assyrian) 1 0.36%
Yazidi Movement 1 0.36%
Iraqi Turkman Front 1 0.36%
Total: 3 1.09% 2 4.35%
Significant Iraqi Political Parties
Assyrian Democratic Movement Yunadim KANNA
Badr Organization Hadi al-AMIRI
Constitutional Monarchy Movement - CMM Sharif Ali Bin al-HUSAYN
Da'wa al-Islamiya Party Nuri al-MALIKI
General Conference of Iraqi People Adnan al-DULAYMI
Goran (Change) List Nushirwan MUSTAFA
Independent Iraqi Alliance or IIA Falah al-NAQIB
Iraqi Communist Party Hamid MAJID
Iraqi Front for National Dialogue Salih al-MUTLAQ
Iraqi Hizballah Karim Mahmud al-MUHAMMADAWI
Iraqi Independent Democrats - IID Adnan PACHACHI, Mahdi al-HAFIZ
Iraqi Islamic Party - IIP Tariq al-HASHIMI
Iraqi National Accord - INA Ayad ALLAWI
Iraqi National Congress - INC Ahmad CHALABI
Iraqi National Council for Dialogue or INCD Khalaf Ulayan al-Khalifawi al-DULAYMI
Iraqi National Unity Movement or INUM Ahmad al-KUBAYSI
Islamic Action Organization or IAO Ayatollah Muhammad al-MUDARRISI
Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq or ISCI (SCIRI) Ammar al-HAKIM
Jama'at al Fadilah or JAF Muhammad Ali al-YAQUBI
Kurdish Democratic Party KDP Masud BARZANI
Kurdistan Islamic Union Salah ad-Din Muhammad BAHA al-DIN
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Jalal TALABANI
Sadrist Trend Muqtada al-SADR
Sahawa al-Iraq Ahmad al-RISHAWI
Although Shia leader Ayatollah Sistani had opposed the formation of political organizations, he approved the formation of a Shia-dominated coalition, the United Iraqi Alliance, to contest the parliamentary elections of January 2005. In the early post-Saddam Hussein years, the two major formal Shia parties were the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution (SCIRI) and Islamic Dawa (known as Dawa). SCIRI maintains close ties in Iran, commands a militia force of 10,000, and seeks a strong political role for the Islamic clergy. Since its return from exile in Iran in 2003, SCIRI had projected a more pluralistic image in a successful effort to broaden its support. It has supported the U.S. presence in Iraq and the 2005 parliamentary elections. Dawa began in 1958 as an Islamic revolutionary party, existed in exile during the Hussein regime, and emerged as an advocate of Islamic reform and modernization of religious institutions.
In the parliamentary elections of January 2005, the United Iraqi Alliance gained 140 of the 275 seats contested, and Dawa leader Ibrahim al Jafari was named prime minister of the transitional government.
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