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The Iraqi Front for National Dialogue (al-Jabha al-Iraqia li al-Hiwar al-Watani ) also known as Hiwar is a Sunni Arab

Arab

Arab people, also known as Arabs , are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds, with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal relationships playing...

-led Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

i political list that was formed to contest the December 2005 elections

Iraqi legislative election, December 2005

Following the ratification of the Constitution of Iraq on 15 October 2005, a general election was held on 15 December to elect a permanent 275-member Iraqi Council of Representatives....

. It describes itself as a non-sectarian coalition that wants to end the presence of foreign troops and to rebuild government institutions.

The main components are:

• The Iraqi National Front, led by former Minister of State Saleh al-Mutlaq
  Saleh al-Mutlaq
  Saleh Muhammed al-Mutlaq is an Iraqi politician who is the head of Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, the fifth largest political list in Iraq's parliament. Since 21 December 2010, he has been one of the three deputy prime ministers of Iraq....
  
  , who was the chief Sunni Arab negotiator for the constitution
  Constitution of Iraq
  The Constitution of Iraq is Iraq's fundamental law.-History:Iraq's first constitution, which established a constitutional monarchy, entered into force under the auspices of a British military occupation in 1925 and remained in effect until the 1958 revolution established a republic...
  
  
• The National Front for a Free and United Iraq of Hassan Zaydan
• The Iraqi Christian Democratic Party of Minas al-Yusufi
• The Democratic Arab Front of Farhan al-Sudayd
• The Sons of Iraq Movement of Ali al-Suhayri

The coalition includes Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians

Assyrian people

The Assyrian people are a distinct ethnic group whose origins lie in ancient Mesopotamia...

, Yezidis and Shabaks.

The Front is distinct from the Iraqi National Dialogue Council

Iraqi National Dialogue Council

The Iraqi National Dialogue Council is a Sunni Islamist political party initially established as an umbrella organization of approximately ten smaller Sunni parties to take part in the 2005 Iraqi Constitution drafting process. The party was founded by Saleh al-Mutlaq and Khalaf al-Ulayyan...

, headed by Khalaf al-Ulayyan

Khalaf al-Ulayyan

Sheikh Khalaf al-Ulayyan is an Iraqi politician and the leader of the Sunni Islamist-led Iraqi National Dialogue Council. The council joined the Iraqi Accord Front to contest the December 2005 general election...

, which is a component of the Iraqi Accord Front

Iraqi Accord Front

The Iraqi Accord Front or Iraqi Accordance Front also known as Tawafuq is an Iraqi Sunni-Islamist political coalition created on October 26, 2005 by the Iraqi Islamic Party to contest the December 2005 general election...

.

Mutlaq campaigned against the constitution in the October 2005 referendum

Iraqi constitution ratification vote, 2005

The electorate of Iraq went to the polls on 15 October 2005 to vote in a referendum on whether or not to ratify the proposed constitution of Iraq. After 10 days of counting votes, the country's electoral commission announced that the constitution had been approved by a wide margin nationwide...

, and refused to join the other main Sunni Arab

Arab

Arab people, also known as Arabs , are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds, with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal relationships playing...

-led list, Iraqi Accord Front

Iraqi Accord Front

The Iraqi Accord Front or Iraqi Accordance Front also known as Tawafuq is an Iraqi Sunni-Islamist political coalition created on October 26, 2005 by the Iraqi Islamic Party to contest the December 2005 general election...

 because that group's largest component, the Iraqi Islamic Party

Iraqi Islamic Party

The Iraqi Islamic Party is currently the largest Sunni Islamist political party in Iraq as well as the most prominent member of the Iraqi Accord Front political coalition. It is currently part of the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki...

, had backed the new constitution.

The Front performed relatively well in the December 2005 election

Iraqi legislative election, December 2005

Following the ratification of the Constitution of Iraq on 15 October 2005, a general election was held on 15 December to elect a permanent 275-member Iraqi Council of Representatives....

, winning 11 seats, but complained of widespread electoral fraud

Electoral fraud

Electoral fraud is illegal interference with the process of an election. Acts of fraud affect vote counts to bring about an election result, whether by increasing the vote share of the favored candidate, depressing the vote share of the rival candidates or both...

 and called for a re-run of the poll.

The party won 16 seats in the 2010 Iraqi Elections, becoming the biggest Sunni party in the Iraqi parliament.