Political parties in Iraq

This article lists political parties in Iraq.

Iraq is a multi-party system. 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

*Shia parties on the United Iraqi Alliance list
**Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council ("al-Majlis al-alalith-thaura l-islamiyya fil-Iraq") - led by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim
**Islamic Dawa Party ("Hizb al-Da'wa al-Islamiyya") - led by Nouri al-Maliki
**Islamic Fayli Grouping in Iraq - led by Muqdad Al-Baghdadi
*Kurdish parties on the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan list
**Kurdistan Democratic Party ("Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistanê") - led by Massoud Barzani
**Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ("Yaketi Nishtimani Kurdistan") - led by Jalal Talabani
**Kurdistan Islamic Union ("Yekîtiya Islamiya Kurdistan")
**Kurdistan Toilers’ Party ("Parti Zahmatkeshan Kurdistan")
**Kurdistan Communist Party ("Partiya Komunîst Kurdistan")
**Assyrian Patriotic Party
*Secular parties on the Iraqi List ("al-Qayimaal Iraqia")
**Iraqi National Accord - led by Iyad Allawi
*The Iraqis list - led by Ghazi al-Yawer
*Iraqi Turkmen Front ("Irak Türkmen Cephesi)") (same as Alliance of the Turkomen Front of Iraq?)
*National Independent Cadres and Elites
*People's Union ("Ittihad Al Shaab")
**Iraqi Communist Party - led by Hamid Majid Mousa
*Islamic Kurdish Society - led by Ali Abd-al Aziz
*Islamic Labour Movement in Iraq
*National Democratic Party ("Hizb al Dimuqratiyah al Wataniyah") - led by Samir al-Sumaidai
*National Rafidain List
**Assyrian Democratic Movement ("Zowaa Dimuqrataya Aturaya")- led by Yonadam Kanna
*Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc
*The Upholders of the Message ("Al-Risaliyun")
*Mithal al-Alusi List
*Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress

Other parties

*Secular parties
**Communist Party of Iraq
**Worker-Communist Party of Iraq
**Leftist Worker-Communist Party of Iraq
**Alliance of Independent Democrats - led by Adnan Pachachi
**National Democratic Party - Naseer al-Chaderchi
**Green Party of Iraq
**Iraqi Scientific Humanitarian Committee
** [http://www.iduus.com/ Iraqi Democratic Union]
** [http://www.geocities.com/iraqinationparty/ Federal Democratic Iraqi Nation Party ]
** [http://www.wifaq.com/ Iraqi National Accord ]

*Monarchist
**Constitutional Monarchy Movement - led by Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein
**Iraqi Hashemite Alliance - led by Sharif Maamoun Abd al-Rahmann al-Naisan
*Assyrian/Christian parties and lists
**Alliance of the Two Rivers
**National List of the Two Rivers
**National Assyrian Alliance - led by Odisho Milko Kurkis
**Assyrian Patriotic Party - on the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan list
**Assyria Liberation Party
*Kurdish parties
**Kurdistani Democratic Solution Party - led by Fa'aq Mohammed
**Kurdistani Conservatives Party - led by Zyad Omar Khider Surchi
**Islamic Union for the Philean Kurds of Iraq
*Turkish parties
**National Turkomen Movement - led by Hassam Eddin Ali Wali
**Turkmen People's Party
*Yazidi parties
**Yazidi Future Movement
*Sunni parties
**Iraqi Islamic Party - led by Mohsen Abdel Hamid

Illegal party

*Ba'ath Party

The Ba'ath party, which has an official name : The Party of Arabic Socialist Ba'ath, was founded on 7th of April 1947 in Syria.

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4511450.stm List of political parties participating in December 2005 election]
* [http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr179.html Report on Iraq's New Political Map by the United States Institute of Peace]

ee also

*Index of political parties to browse parties by name
*List of political parties to browse parties by country
*List of political parties by ideology to browse parties by name
*Membership of internationals to browse parties by membership of internationals