List of political parties in Iraq
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The following is a list of 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.
Parliamentary alliances and parties[]
| Party | Abbr. | Leader | Political position |
Ideology | MPs | |
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| Alliance Towards Reforms تحالف سائرون للإصلاح |
Saairun سائرون |
Hassan al-Aquli | Big tent | Iraqi nationalism Anti-corruption |
73 / 329
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| Fatah Alliance ائتلاف الفتح Iʾtilāf al-Fatḥ |
Hadi al-Amiri | Right-wing | Shia Islamism Pro-Iran Anti-secularism |
17 / 329
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| Victory Alliance ائتلاف النصر Iʾtilāf al-Naṣr |
Haider al-Abadi | Centre | Nonsectarianism Realpolitik Islamic democracy |
4 / 329
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| Kurdistani Coalition هاوپەیمانی كوردستانی |
Abdul Rahman Mustafa | Constitutionalism Kurdish nationalism Kurdish rights |
Kurdish nationalism Self-determination |
0 / 329
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| State of Law Coalition إئتلاف دولة القانون I'tilāf Dawlat al-Qānūn |
Nouri al-Maliki | Syncretic | Populism Anti-secularism Statism |
33 / 329
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| National Coalition ائتلاف الوطنية Al-Wataniya |
Ayad Allawi | Centre | Secularism | 0 / 329
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| National Wisdom Movement تيار الحكمة الوطني Tayar al-Hikmah al-Watani |
Ammar al-Hakim | Big tent | Islamism Nonsectarianism |
0 / 329
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| Uniters for Reform Coalition ائتلاف متحدون للاصلاح I'tilāf Muttaḥidūn lil-Iṣlāḥ |
Muttahidoon متحدون |
Osama al-Nujaifi | Regionalism Islamic democracy Populism |
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| Party | Abbr | Leader | Political position & ideologies | |
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| Sadrist Movement | Saairun | Muqtada al-Sadr | Shia Islamism Religious Conservatism Iraqi nationalism Populism Anti-imperialism | |
| Iraqi Communist Party | Communism Classical Marxism Reformism Secularism Nonsectarianism | |||
| Youth Movement for Change Party | ||||
| Party of Progress and Reform | ||||
| Iraqi Republican Group | ||||
| State of Justice Party | ||||
| Party | Abbr. | Leader | Political position & ideologies | |
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| Islamic Dawa Party(Abadi) | Dawa(Abadi) | Haider al-Abadi | Islamic Democracy | |
| Ataa Movement | Falih Alfayyadh | Islamic Democracy | ||
| Popular Movement in Iraq | Hirak | Sheikh | Sunni Arab Interests Federalism | |
| Iraqi National Congress | INC | Ahmed Chalabi | Centrism Nonsectarianism | |
| Party | Abbr. | Leader | Political position & ideologies | |
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| Badr Organization | Hadi Al-Amiri | Shia Islamism | ||
| Al-Sadiqoun Bloc | Shia Political Thought Religious Sectarianism | |||
| Islamic Virtue Party | Khomeinism Islamism Anti-Zionism | |||
| National Reform Trend | Islah | Ibrahim al-Jaafari | Islamism | |
| Party | Abbr. | Leader | Political position & ideologies | |
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| Islamic Dawa Party (Maliki) حزب الدعوة الإسلامية Hizb al-Da'wa al-Islamiyya |
Dawa(Maliki) | Nouri al-Maliki | Islamic democracy | |
| Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq المجلس الأعلى الإسلامي العراقي al-Majlis al-alalith-thaura l-islamiyya fil-Iraq |
ISCI | Humam Hamoudi | Decentralization Shia Islamism Sistanism | |
| Islamic Dawa Party – Iraq Organisation حزب الدعوة الاسلامية - تنظيم العراق Hizb al Daʿwa al-Islamiyya - Tanzim al-Iraq |
Hashim Al-Mosawy | Shia Islamism | ||
| Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkoman | Abbas al-Bayati | Iraqi Turkmen Interests | ||
| Party | Abbr | Leader | Political position and Ideologies | |
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| Kurdistan Democratic Party | KDP | Masoud Barzani | Kurdish nationalism Self-determination | |
| Patriotic Union of Kurdistan | PUK | Bafel Talabani | Kurdish nationalism Social democracy Secularism | |
| Kurdish Islamic Group | KIG | Ali Bapir | Salafism | |
| Kurdistan Islamic Union | KIU | Salaheddine Bahaaeddin | Islamic Democracy Kurdish nationalism | |
| Gorran Movement | Omar Said Ali | Secularism Kurdish nationalism Social liberalism Liberal Socialism Federalism Regionalism | ||
| Coalition for Democracy and Justice | CDJ | Kurdish nationalism Social Democracy | ||
| Communist Party of Kurdistan - Iraq | Communism | |||
| Kurdistan Islamic Movement | Kurdish nationalism Islamism | |||
| Kurdistan Toilers Party | Socialism Left-wing nationalism | |||
| Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party | Mohammed Haji Mahmoud | Kurdish nationalism Social Democracy | ||
| (Tevgera Azadi) | Democratic Confederalism | |||
| Yazidi Democratic Party | Haydar Shesho | Yazidi Rights | ||
| Party | Abbr | Leader | Political position and Ideologies | |
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| Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council | Shamsuddin Georgis Zaya | Autonomism Regionalism determination | ||
| Iraqi Turkmen Front | Arshad al-Salihi | Regionalism Turkmen Interests | ||
| Civil Democratic Alliance | Ali Khathem Aziz | Secularism Nonsectarianism Anti-corruption Third way | ||
| Assyrian Democratic Movement | Yonadam Kanna | Assyrian interests Federalism | ||
| Sons of Mesopotamia | Self-determination Populism | |||
| Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress | Amin Farhan Jejo | Yazidi Interests Regionalism | ||
| New Generation Movement | Shaswar Abdulwahid Qadir | Liberalism | ||
Other parties[]
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- Al Neshoor Party
- Alliance of Independent Democrats – led by Adnan Pachachi
- Assyria Liberation Party
- Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party
- Constitutional Monarchy Movement – led by Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein
- Democratic Monarchy Alliance
- Green Party of Iraq
- The Upholders of the Message (Al-Risaliyun)
- Iraqi Democratic Union
- led by [[Jalal B. Mejel AlGaood
- (PADE)
- Leftist Worker-Communist Party of Iraq
- Popular Unity Party
- Turkmen People's Party
- Worker-Communist Party of Iraq
| Name(English) | Name(Arabic) | Acronym | Leader | Political position & ideologies |
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| Wahdat an-Nidal | Wahdat an-Nidal
وحدة النضال |
- | - | Communism |
| Unified Popular Front | Al-Jabha Al-Sha'abiya Al-Mutahida
الجبهة الشعبية المتحدة |
UPF | - | - |
| National Democratic Party | Hizb al Wataniyah al Dimuqratiyah
الحزب الوطني الديمقراطي |
NDP | Kamel al-Chaderji | Centre-left
Social democracy Democratic socialism |
| Shursh | Şoreş | - | - | Communism |
| Rayat ash-Shaghilah | Rayat Ash-Shagillah
راية الشغّيلة |
- | Jamal al-Haidari | Communism |
| Organization of Iraqi Revolutionary Communists | Tanzim Al-shiyo'iyyin Al-Thawriyyin Al-'Araqiyyin
تنظيم الشيوعيين الثوريين العراقيين |
IRC | Communism | |
| Leninist Group in the Iraqi Communist Movement | Al-Fariq Al-Lenini Fi Al-Haraka Al-Shiyo'iya Al-'Araqia
الفريق اللينيني في الحركة الشيوعية العراقية |
- | Khalid Abdullah as-Salam
Khalil al-Jazairi |
Communism |
| League of Iraqi Communists | Al-Rabita Al-shiyo'iyyin Al-'Araqiyyin
رابطة الشيوعيين العراقيين |
- | Daud as-Sayegh | Communism |
| Iraqi Communist Vanguard Organisation | - | - | - | Communism |
| Iraqi Communist Party of Daud as-Sayegh | - | - | Daud as-Sayegh | Communism |
| Iraqi Communist Party (Central Command) | Widhat al-Qa'idah | - | Adil Abdul-Mahdi | Communism |
| Ila al-Amam (Iraq) | Ila al-Amam
إلى الأمام |
Thunun Ayub
Yaqub Cohen |
Communism | |
| Arab Unity Party | Hizb Al-Wahda Al-Arabiya
حزب الوحدة العربية |
AUP | Left-wing politics | |
| Arab Struggle Party | Hizb Al-Kifah Al-Arabi
حزب الكفاح العربي |
ASP | - | Nasserism |
| Arabic Toilers' Movement | Harakt Al-Kadeheen Al-Arab
حركة الكادحين العرب |
ATM | Unknown; several | Marxist-Leninist |
| Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc | Kutla al-Musalaha wa't-Tahrir | RLB | Misha'an al-Juburi | Secularism
Arab nationalism |
| Name(English) | Name(Arabic) | Acronym | Leader | Political position & ideologies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hizb ut-Tahrir | Hizb at-Tahrir
حزب التحرير |
HT | Ata Abu Rashta | Islamism
Caliphalism |
| Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq | Hizb al-Ba‘th al-'Arabi al-Ishtiraki fi al-'Iraq
حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي في العراق |
- | Raghad Hussein | Left-wing to right-wing
Saddamism |
| Al-Awda | Al-Awda
العودة |
- | Mohammed Younis al-Ahmed | Ba'athism |
See also[]
- Politics of Iraq
- List of political parties by country
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
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| Reserved Christian seats (5) |
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