Emtidad Movement

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Extension Movement
حركة امتداد
Emtidad
AbbreviationEMT (unofficial)
LeaderAlaa Al Rikabi
SpokespersonManar Obaidi
FounderAlaa Al Rikabi
Founded1 December 2020; 15 months ago (2020-12-01)
IdeologyModerate politics
Liberalism
Secularism
Reformism
Iraqi nationalism
Nonsectarianism
Political positionCentre
Seats in the Council of Representatives:
9 / 329

The Emtidad Movement or Emtidad (Arabic: حركة امتداد, romanizedHarakat Emtidad), also sometimes translated as the Extension Movement, is an Iraqi political party formed to contest the 2021 parliamentary election.[1][2]

Foundation[]

The party was formed in early December 2020 by Alaa Al Rikabi, a doctor and civil activist with other civil activists inside a tent in Al-Haboubi Square, the stronghold of the 2019–2021 Iraqi protests in the center of Dhi Qar governorate. The idea was establishing a youth civil movement as an alternative to the current political parties that have failed to run the country and have been implicated in crimes of financial corruption, fueling sectarianism and racism, and creating various crises in the country since 2003. The announcement of the movement came in January 2021 and was called "extension", indicating that the movement's premise stemmed from the demands of the protesters, who demanded the end of sectarianism and state corrupion.[3]

Electoral results[]

2021 Iraqi parliamentary election

Although the movement got nearly 300,000 votes, that turned out to be only 9 seats due to the bad distribution of candidates in the pools.[4]

Election year # of
overall votes
% of
overall vote
# of
overall seats won
+/– Government
2021 299,303 (#9)
9 / 329
Steady


References[]

  1. ^ https://www.trtarabi.com/opinion/مشاركة-تشرين-في-الانتخابات-العراقية-القادمة-4123165. "مشاركة "تشرين" في الانتخابات العراقية القادمة". مشاركة "تشرين" في الانتخابات العراقية القادمة (in Arabic). Retrieved 2021-10-17. {{cite web}}: External link in |last= (help)
  2. ^ "خارطة انتخابات العراق: 22 تحالفاً و789 مرشحاً مستقلاً يتنافسون في 83 دائرة انتخابية". مونت كارلو الدولية / MCD (in Arabic). 2021-10-08. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
  3. ^ rima.khalil. "قصة حركة "امتداد" المدنية: من خيمة إلى قبة البرلمان العراقي". www.alaraby.co.uk/ (in Arabic). Retrieved 2021-10-17.
  4. ^ "المفوضية العليا المستقلة للانتخابات - IHEC Website المفوضية العليا المستقلة للانتخابات". IHEC Website. Retrieved 2022-01-09.


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