List of political parties in Iraq
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This article lists political parties in Iraq.
Iraq
is a multi-party state. Political 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.
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....
is a multi-party state. Political parties
Political party
A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...
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.
Parliamentary alliances and parties
- National Iraqi Alliance
- Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (al-Majlis al-alalith-thaura l-islamiyya fil-Iraq) - led by Ammar al-HakimAmmar al-HakimSayyed Ammar al-Hakim is an Iraqi politician who leads the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, which was the largest party in Iraq's Council of Representatives from the 2003 Invasion of Iraq until the 2010 Iraqi elections....
- Sadrist MovementSadrist MovementThe Sadrist Movement is an Iraqi Islamist national movement led by Muqtada al-Sadr. The movement draws wide support from across Iraqi society and especially from the Shi'a poor in the country. The most important person in setting the goals and the philosophy of the movement was Grand Ayatollah...
- led by Muqtada al-SadrMuqtada al-SadrSayyid Muqtadā al-Ṣadr is an Iraqi Islamic political leader.Along with Ali al-Sistani and Ammar al-Hakim of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, Sadr is one of the most influential religious and political figures in the country not holding any official title in the Iraqi government.-Titles:He is... - Islamic Dawa Party - Iraq OrganisationIslamic Dawa Party - Iraq OrganisationThe Islamic Dawa Party was formed in 1957 in the Iraqi holy City of Najaf. Their aim was to create a movement which would promote Islamic values and ethics, and which would become an instrument for political activeness. This came at a time when there was widespread ignorance about religion and...
(Hizb al-Da'wa al-Islami Tendeem al-Iraq) - led by Kasim Muhammad Taqi al-SahlaniKasim Muhammad Taqi al-SahlaniKasim Muhammad Taqi al-Sahlani was an Iraqi politician. He was a member of the National Assembly of Iraq and was the head of the parliamentary bloc of the Islamic Dawa Party - Iraq Organisation, the fifth largest party within the ruling United Iraqi Alliance coalition... - Islamic Dawa PartyIslamic Dawa PartyThe Islamic Dawa Party or Islamic Call Party is a political party in Iraq. Dawa and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council are two of the main parties in the religious-Shiite United Iraqi Alliance, which won a plurality of seats in both the provisional January 2005 Iraqi election and the longer-term...
(Hizb al-Da'wa al-Islamiyya) - led by Nouri al-MalikiNouri al-MalikiNouri Kamil Mohammed Hasan al-Maliki , also known as Jawad al-Maliki or Abu Esraa, is the Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Al-Maliki and his government succeeded the Iraqi Transitional Government. He is currently in his second term as Prime Minister... - Tribes of Iraq CoalitionTribes of Iraq CoalitionThe Tribes of Iraq Coalition also known as the Anbar Salvation Council is an Iraqi political coalition formed to contest the Al Anbar governorate election, 2009 which won 2 out of 29 seats....
- led by Hamid al-Hais - Islamic Fayli Grouping in IraqIslamic Fayli Grouping in IraqThe Islamic Fayli Grouping in Iraq or Iraqi Faili Islamic Gathering is one of two Iraqi political parties of Shi'a Fayli Kurds, the other being the Fayli Kurd Islamic Union...
- led by Muqdad Al-Baghdadi
- Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (al-Majlis al-alalith-thaura l-islamiyya fil-Iraq) - led by Ammar al-Hakim
- Democratic Patriotic Alliance of KurdistanDemocratic Patriotic Alliance of KurdistanThe Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan sometimes referred to simply as the Kurdistan Alliance is the name of the electoral coalition first presented as a united Kurdish list in the January 2005 election in Iraq. Elections were held simultaneously for the assembly of the Kurdistan Regional...
- Kurdistan Democratic Party (Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistanê) - led by Massoud BarzaniMassoud BarzaniMassoud Barzani is the current President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region and the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. Barzani was born in Mahabad, Iran, during the rule of the Republic of Mahabad...
- Patriotic Union of KurdistanPatriotic Union of KurdistanThe Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is a Kurdish political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded on June 1, 1975, by coordinations between Jalal Talabani and Nawshirwan Mustafa...
(Yaketi Nishtimani Kurdistan) - led by Jalal TalabaniJalal TalabaniJalal Talabani is the sixth and current President of Iraq, a leading Kurdish politician. He is the first non-Arab president of Iraq, although Abdul Kareem Qasim was half Kurdish.... - Kurdistan Islamic UnionKurdistan Islamic UnionKurdistan Islamic Union is an Islamist party in Iraqi Kurdistan is in principle independent and is directly responsible for policy matters. The party has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.-Events:...
(Yekîtiya Islamiya Kurdistan) - Movement for ChangeMovement for ChangeThe Movement for Change also known as Change List or Gorran is a reformist Iraqi Kurdish political party under the leadership of Nawshirwan Mustafa, founded in 2009 it is the official opposition to the ruling two-party coalition of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan...
(Bizutnaway Gorran) - led by Nawshirwan MustafaNawshirwan MustafaNawshirwan Mustafa in Sulaymaniyah Kurdistan is the chairman of the Movement for Change and the leader of the official opposition in the Kurdistan Region.- Early life :... - Kurdistan Toilers’ Party (Parti Zahmatkeshan Kurdistan)
- Kurdistan Communist PartyKurdistan Communist PartyThe Kurdistan Communist Party/Iraq is a Kurdish political party, formed in 1993 when the Iraqi Communist Party branch in the Kurdish areas was formed into a separate party. The party is led by Kamal Shakir....
(Partiya Komunîst Kurdistan) - Assyrian Patriotic PartyAssyrian Patriotic PartyThe Assyrian Patriotic Party is a political party in Iraq representing ethnic Assyrians that is led by Nimrud Baito. The party entered alliance with the Assyrian Democratic Movement in 1991, but eventually the ties between the two parties broke off...
- Kurdistan Democratic Party (Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistanê) - led by Massoud Barzani
- Iraqi ListIraqi ListThe Iraqi List is a political party list in the Iraqi National Assembly election, 2005, consisting of mainly secular Shia. It is dominated by the Iraqi National Accord led by former exile and interim prime minister Iyad Allawi...
(al-Qayimaal Iraqia)- Iraqi National AccordIraqi National AccordThe Iraqi National Accord known inside Iraq as Wifaq is an Iraqi political party founded by Iyad Allawi and Salah Omar Al-Ali in 1991. Al-Ali subsequently left the party after he realised the extent of Allawi's links to foreign intelligence agencies, mainly the C.I.A. and MI6.It was founded at the...
- led by Iyad AllawiIyad AllawiAyad Allawi is an Iraqi politician, and was the interim Prime Minister of Iraq prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections. A prominent Iraqi political activist who lived in exile for almost 30 years, the politically secular Shia Muslim became a member of the Iraq Interim Governing Council, which...
- Iraqi National Accord
- The IraqisThe IraqisThe Iraqis is an Iraqi political party led by Vice-President Ghazi al-Yawar. It was the largest Sunni party to participate in the January 2005 Iraqi election. During the election campaign, al-Yawar was President of Iraq, a then largely symbolic but still prominent position. The party consists of...
- led by Ghazi al-Yawer - Iraqi Turkmen FrontIraqi Turkmen FrontThe Iraqi Turkmen Front is a political movement founded in 1995 which seeks to represent the Turkmen people of Iraq. Since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the ITF has contested control of Kirkuk and other areas of northern Iraq....
(Irak Türkmen Cephesi)) (same as Alliance of the Turkomen Front of Iraq?) - National Independent Cadres and ElitesNational Independent Cadres and ElitesThe National Independent Cadres and Elites is an Iraqi political party. It represents Shi'ites who do not support the approach of the United Iraqi Alliance. It is closely associated with the movement of Moqtada al-Sadr and the Mahdi Army...
- People's UnionPeople's Union (Iraq)The People's Union was the main communist party list in the January 2005 Iraqi legislative election. It is made up of the Iraqi Communist Party and independent candidate Hikmat Dawud Hakim. Before the election, it attempted to form a wider coalition among secularist groups, but this effort failed...
(Ittihad Al Shaab)- Iraqi Communist PartyIraqi Communist PartySince its foundation in 1934, the Iraqi Communist Party has dominated the left in Iraqi politics. It played a fundamental role in shaping the political history of Iraq between its foundation and the 1970s. The Party was involved in many of the most important national uprisings and demonstrations...
- led by Hamid Majid MousaHamid Majid MousaHamid Majid Mousa is the Secretary General of the Iraqi Communist Party. He was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq, and currently holds a seat on the National Assembly under Iyad Allawi's Iraqi National List. An economist and...
- Iraqi Communist Party
- Islamic Kurdish Society - led by Ali Abd-al Aziz
- Islamic Labour Movement in IraqIslamic Labour Movement in IraqThe Islamic Labour Movement in Iraq is a political party in Iraq.At the legislative elections, 31 January 2005, the party won 0.5 % of the popular vote and 2 out of 275 seats....
- National Democratic PartyNational Democratic Party (Iraq)The National Democratic Party is an Iraqi political party. The party was founded after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as several Iraqis, including Naseer al-Chaderchi, son of former leader Kamil al-Chaderchi, and Abdel Amir Abbud Rahima, sought to revive the historic National Democratic Party.The...
(Hizb al Dimuqratiyah al Wataniyah) - led by Samir al-Sumaidai - National Rafidain ListNational Rafidain ListThe National Rafidain List or Al Rafidain National List is the name of the list that is used by Assyrian Democratic Movement during the Iraqi elections, headed by Yunadam Kanna....
- Assyrian Democratic MovementAssyrian Democratic MovementThe Assyrian Democratic Movement also known as Zowaa is an ethnic Assyrian political party in Iraq, and is currently the only Assyrian-based political party to be voting in the Iraqi parliament....
(Zowaa Dimuqrataya Aturaya)- led by Yonadam KannaYonadam KannaYonadam Yousef Kanna is an Iraqi politician and a member of the Iraqi National Assembly. He was a member of the Iraqi Governing Council in 2003-2004 that was created following the Invasion of Iraq by the United States in 2003. An Assyrian Christian from northern Iraq, Kanna served in the Kurdistan...
- Assyrian Democratic Movement
- Reconciliation and Liberation BlocReconciliation and Liberation BlocThe Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc or Kutla al-Musalaha wa't-Tahrir is an Iraqi political party. The Sunni, liberal, and secularist party was founded as the Iraqi Homeland Party in Jordan in 1995 by exiles from Saddam's regime. A prominent member was Saddam's son-in-law Hussein Kamel al-Majid...
- The Upholders of the MessageThe Upholders of the MessageThe Upholders of the Message, is an Iraqi political list that ran in the December 2005 elections. This list won 1.2 % of the popular vote, thus receiving two seats. The members are supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr and they were allowed to join the United Iraqi Alliance primary election for the Iraqi...
(Al-Risaliyun) - Mithal al-Alusi ListMithal al-Alusi ListThe Mithal al-Alusi List is one of the coalitions of Iraqi political parties that ran in the December 2005 elections. It was formed from the Iraqi Federalist Gathering and the Iraqi Ummah Party The coalition won 0.3 % of the popular vote, thus receiving one seat, which was taken by its...
- Yazidi Movement for Reform and ProgressYazidi Movement for Reform and ProgressThe Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress is a Yezidi political party in Iraq. The party represents Yezidi people in the Nineveh plains.It ran in the December 2005 elections and won 0.2 % of the popular vote, thus receiving one seat in the Iraqi parliament .The party won a local governorate seat...
Other parties
- Communist Party of Iraq
- Worker-Communist Party of IraqWorker-Communist Party of IraqThe Worker-Communist Party of Iraq is a Marxist political party in Iraq and amongst Iraqi exiles. Rebwar Ahmed is the current leader of this party. It was Established in July 1993 through a merger of communist groups....
- Leftist Worker-Communist Party of IraqLeftist Worker-Communist Party of IraqThe Left Worker-communist Party of Iraq is a small political party in Iraq, formed in 2004.The party was formed by a group of communists, some of whom were members in the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq soon after the WCPIraq decided to support the Worker-Communist Party of Iran - Hekmatist; the...
- Alliance of Independent DemocratsAssembly of Independent DemocratsThe Assembly of Independent Democrats is an electoral coalition that participated in the January 30, 2005 National Assembly legislative election in Iraq...
- led by Adnan PachachiAdnan PachachiAdnan al-Pachachi or Adnan Muzahim Amin al-Pachachi is a veteran Iraqi politician and diplomat. Pachachi was Iraq's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1959 to 1965 and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq from 1965 to 1967; he again served as Permanent Representative to the UN... - National Democratic PartyNational Democratic Party (Iraq)The National Democratic Party is an Iraqi political party. The party was founded after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as several Iraqis, including Naseer al-Chaderchi, son of former leader Kamil al-Chaderchi, and Abdel Amir Abbud Rahima, sought to revive the historic National Democratic Party.The...
- Naseer al-ChaderchiNaseer al-ChaderchiNaseer Kamel al-Chaderchi was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq. al-Chaderchi is a Sunni Muslim and the leader of the National Democratic Party... - Green Party of IraqGreen Party of IraqThe Green Party of Iraq was created in 2003 and is dedicated to build an Iraq that is committed to "democracy, justice, and freedom" and one that respects equal rights for all Iraqis, irrespective of "religion, sect, or ethnicity"...
- Iraqi Democratic Union
- Iraqi National Accord
- Constitutional Monarchy Movement - led by Sharif Ali Bin al-HusseinSharif Ali bin al-HusseinSharif Ali Bin al-Hussein was born in 1956, in Baghdad, Iraq. He is currently the leader of the Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy political party and claims to be the legitimate heir to the position of King of Iraq, based on his relationship to the last monarch, the late King Faisal II.-Early...
- Assyrian Patriotic PartyAssyrian Patriotic PartyThe Assyrian Patriotic Party is a political party in Iraq representing ethnic Assyrians that is led by Nimrud Baito. The party entered alliance with the Assyrian Democratic Movement in 1991, but eventually the ties between the two parties broke off...
- on the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of KurdistanDemocratic Patriotic Alliance of KurdistanThe Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan sometimes referred to simply as the Kurdistan Alliance is the name of the electoral coalition first presented as a united Kurdish list in the January 2005 election in Iraq. Elections were held simultaneously for the assembly of the Kurdistan Regional...
list - Assyria Liberation PartyAssyria Liberation PartyThe Assyria Liberation Party or Gabo D'Furqono D'Othur was founded in 1995, and since 1997 the party has published the magazine Furqono...
- Kurdistan Conservative PartyKurdistan Conservative PartyThe Kurdistan Conservative Party is led by Zaid Surchi and Zainab bin Khalil. The List represents tribal leaders and is dominated by the Surchi family. In 1996 KDP forces clashed with fighters from the Surchi family's home villages, killing Hussein Surchi, Zaid's uncle. The PUK supported the...
- Turkmen People's PartyTurkmen People's PartyThe Turkmen People's Party, or Türkmen Halk Partisi, is a political party representing the Turkmen minority in Iraq. The Turkmen People's Party , founded in 1997, was repressed under Saddam Hussein but has been able to operate freely since the regime was removed by U.S...
- Iraqi Islamic PartyIraqi Islamic PartyThe 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...
- led by Mohsen Abdel HamidMohsen Abdel HamidMohsen Abdel Hamid is an Iraqi politician and Islamic scholar who was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council , created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq.-Biography:... - Al Neshoor Party
Illegal parties
- Hizb ut-TahrirHizb ut-TahrirHizb ut-Tahrir is an international Sunni. pan-Islamic political organisation but keeps it open for all including shias,some of its beliefs are against sunni school of thought, whose goal is for all Muslim countries to unify as an Islamic state or caliphate ruled by Islamic law and with a caliph...
- Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq RegionArab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq RegionThe Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region is a ba'athist regional organisation founded in 1951 by Fuad al-Rikabi...
(Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (Baghdad))
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
See also
- Politics of IraqPolitics of IraqThe politics of Iraq takes place in a framework of a federal parliamentary representative democratic republic. It is a multi-party system whereby the executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers as the head of government, as well as the President of Iraq, and...
- List of political parties by country