Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq

Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq حزبي شيوعى كوردستان – عيراق
Leader
Founded	1993 (1993)
Split from	Iraqi Communist Party
Headquarters	Arbil, Kurdistan Region
Women's wing	Kurdistan Women's League
Ideology	Communism
National affiliation	Kurdistan List
International affiliation	IMCWP
Colors	Red
Council of Representatives of Iraq:	0 / 329
Kurdistan Parliament:	1 / 111
Website
www.regaykurdistan.com
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The Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq (Kurdish: حزبي شيوعى كوردستان – عيراق‎, Arabic: الحزب الشيوعي الكوردستاني – العراق) 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 Kawa Mahmud.

In both the January and December 2005 Iraqi legislative elections the party was part of the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan. The party has a women's wing, the Kurdistan Women's League, whose leader Nahla Hussain al-Shaly was murdered in Kirkuk in 2008.^[1] It also has an Assyrian wing called the Kaldo-Ashur Communist Party based in Ankawa.

Electoral results[]

Federal parliament[]

Election year	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–	Notes
2013	12,392	0.6% (#8)	1 / 111	1	Crossbench
2018	8,063	0.5% (#8)	1 / 111	1	Crossbench

References[]

External links[]

• Official website (in Arabic and Kurdish)
• Press-releases of Kurdistan Communist Party – Iraq at Solidnet.org
• Iraqi Opposition

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