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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

• National Iraqi Alliance list
  • Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (al-Majlis al-alalith-thaura l-islamiyya fil-Iraq) - led by Ammar al-Hakim
  • Islamic Dawa Party - Iraq Organisation (Hizb al-Da'wa al-Islami Tendeem al-Iraq) - led by Kasim Muhammad Taqi al-Sahlani
  • Islamic Dawa Party (Hizb al-Da'wa al-Islamiyya) - led by Nouri al-Maliki
  • Islamic Fayli Grouping in Iraq - led by Muqdad Al-Baghdadi
• 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
• 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

• 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 Democratic Union
• Iraqi National Accord
• Constitutional Monarchy Movement - led by Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein
• Assyrian Patriotic Party - on the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan list
• Assyria Liberation Party
• Kurdistan Conservative Party
• Turkmen People's Party
• Iraqi Islamic Party - led by Mohsen Abdel Hamid

Illegal party

• Ba'ath Party

The Ba'ath party, officially named "The Party of Arabic Socialist Ba'ath", was founded on 7th of April 1947 in Syria.

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

See 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

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