Kurdish Revolutionary Party was a political party

Political party

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 in Iraq

Iraq

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. Originally formed in 1964, it merged into Kurdish Democratic Party in 1970. The party was revived by a group of anti-Barzani

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 dissidents in the KDP leadership in 1974. The refounded Kurdish Revolutionary Party joined the National Progressive Front

National Progressive Front (Iraq)

The National Progressive Front was an Iraqi Popular Front announced on July 16, 1973 and constituted in 1974, ostensibly formed within the framework of a "joint action programme" to establish a coalition between the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, the Iraqi Communist Party, the Kurdistan...

and supported the Kurdish autonomy law proposed by the Iraqi government. The party was led by Abd as-Sattar Tahir Sharif, who left Iraq in 1999.

The party obtained two seats in the national parliament in the March 24, 1996, elections.

The party held its 14th national congress on August 21, 2000.