List of political parties in Iraq
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The following is a list of political parties in Iraq.
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 | Leader | Political position & ideologies | |
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Sadrist Movement | Muqtada al-Sadr | ||
Iraqi Communist Party | Raid Fahmi | Nonsectarianism
| |
Youth Movement for Change Party | |||
Party of Progress and Reform | |||
Iraqi Republican Group | |||
State of Justice Party |
Party | Leader | Political position & ideologies | |
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Ataa Movement | Falih Alfayyadh
|
Islamic Democracy
| |
Popular Movement in Iraq | Mohammed Taha al-Hamdoun | Sunni Arab Interests Iraqi nationalism Federalism | |
Iraqi National Congress | Ahmed Chalabi | Nonsectarianism
|
Party | Leader | Political position & ideologies | |
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Badr Organization | Hadi Al-Amiri
|
Shia Islamism | |
Al-Sadiqoun Bloc | Adnan Fihan Moussa Cheri | Shia Political Thought Religious Sectarianism | |
Islamic Virtue Party | Ammar Tu'ma Abd Abbas | Khomeinism Islamism Anti-Zionism | |
National Reform Trend | Ibrahim al-Jaafari | Islamism | |
Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq المجلس الأعلى الإسلامي العراقي al-Madschlis al-aʿlā l-islāmī l-ʿIrāqī |
Humam Hamoudi | Decentralization Shia Islamism Sistanism |
Party | Leader | Political position & ideologies | |
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Islamic Dawa Party حزب الدعوة الإسلامية Ḥizb al Daʿwa al-Islāmiyya |
Nouri al-Maliki | Islamic democracy
| |
Islamic Dawa Party – Iraq Organisation حزب الدعوة الاسلامية - تنظيم العراق Ḥizb al Daʿwa al-Islāmiyya – Tanzim al-Iraq |
Hashim Al-Mosawy | Shia Islamism | |
Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkoman
|
Abbas al-Bayati | Iraqi Turkmen Interests |
Party | Leader | Political position and Ideologies | |
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Kurdistan Democratic Party | Masoud Barzani | Kurdish nationalism Self-determination | |
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan | Bafel Talabani | Kurdish nationalism Social democracy Secularism | |
Kurdish Islamic Group | Ali Bapir | Salafism
| |
Kurdistan Islamic Union | Salaheddine Bahaaeddin
|
Islamic Democracy
Kurdish nationalism | |
Gorran Movement | Omar Said Ali | ||
Coalition for Democracy and Justice
|
Social Democracy
| ||
Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq | Kawa Mahmud | Communism | |
Kurdistan Islamic Movement | Ehsan Ali Abdul Aziz | Kurdish nationalism Islamism | |
Kurdistan Toilers' Party | Balen Abdullah | Socialism Left-wing nationalism | |
Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party
|
Mohammed Haji Mahmoud | Social Democracy
| |
Kurdistan Society's Freedom Movement (Tevgera Azadi) | Tara Husên Selam Ebdulla |
Democratic confederalism | |
Yazidi Democratic Party | Haydar Shesho | Yazidi Rights |
Party | Leader | Political position and Ideologies | |
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Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council | Shamsuddin Georgis Zaya | Assyrian nationalism Autonomism Regionalism determination | |
Iraqi Turkmen Front | Arshad al-Salihi | Regionalism Turkmen Interests | |
Civil Democratic Alliance | Ali Khathem Aziz | Third way
| |
Assyrian Democratic Movement | Yonadam Kanna | Assyrian interests Federalism | |
Sons of Mesopotamia | Galeta Shaba | Assyrian nationalism Self-determination Populism | |
Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress | Amin Farhan Jejo | Yazidi Interests
Regionalism |
Parties active in the Kurdistan Region
Other parties
- Al Neshoor Party
- Alliance of Independent Democrats – led by Adnan Pachachi
- Assyria Liberation Party
- Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party
- Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein
- Democratic Monarchy Alliance
- Green Party of Iraq
- The Upholders of the Message (Al-Risaliyun)
- Iraqi Democratic Union
- Rawafid El-Iraq led by Jalal B. Mejel AlGaood
- Ezidi Freedom and Democracy Party (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
|
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 | Tahsin Ali Ash-Shaikhli | 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 | Sobhi Abdul Hamid | 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 |
Name(English) | Name(Arabic) | Acronym | Leader | Political position & ideologies |
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Hizb ut-Tahrir | Hizb at-Tahrir
حزب التحرير |
HT | Ata Abu Rashta | Islamism |
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