Iraqi Islamic Values ​​Party

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The Iraqi Islamic Values ​​Party ( Arabic حزب الفضيلة الإسلامي العراقي, DMG Ḥizb al-Faḍīla al-Islāmiyya al-ʿIrāqi , also known as the Fadila Movement or (al-) Fadhela Party ) is a moderate Shiite party in Iraq .

history

Al-Fadhela was founded in 2003 shortly after Saddam Hussein's fall as a result of a disagreement over intra-party discipline and the distribution of decision-making powers between Muqtada al-Sadr and Muhammad Yaqubi when Yaqubi founded his own party with part of the Sadr movement . al-Fadhela took part in the election to the National Assembly in January 2005 and in the election to the Council of Representatives in December 2005 as a sub-group of the United Iraqi Alliance and won 15 seats in the latter (14 direct mandates and one compensation mandate). In May 2006, the previous General Secretary of al-Fadhela, Nadim al-Jabiri , was replaced by Abdelrahim al-Husseini and al-Fadhela withdrew from the coalition negotiations on the formation of a government on the grounds of US interference after other parties refused had to grant al-Fadhela the post of oil and trade minister. In March 2007, al-Fadhela finally left the United Iraqi Alliance on the pretext that its leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, wanted to radicalize the party and deepen the rift between Iraqi Sunnis and Shiites. Al-Fadhela then joined the nationalist-secular Iraqi national movement Iyad Allawis and in September 2007 rejected an offer from the Sadr movement to negotiate. A severe blow for al-Fadhela came in April 2007 when the highest Islamic council in Iraq managed to win a vote of no confidence in Muhammad al-Waili , the then governor of Basra province , as a result of which the Islamic value party lost its most important political position. In the election to the Council of Representatives in 2010 , al-Fadhela was only able to win six seats in parliament, although the Iraqi national movement won the most seats in parliament.

Political ideology

al-Fadhela combines political elements of Shiite Islamism with Iraqi and religious nationalism and conservatism .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yassin Musharbash: Shiites against Shiites: A New Front in Iraq . Spiegel Online , August 30, 2007; accessed January 20, 2013.
  2. ^ Shiite movement: Sadr party leaves Iraqi government . Spiegel Online , September 15, 2007; accessed January 20, 2013
  3. ↑ Waiting for Anbar, Salaheddin and Nineveh . Zeit Online , October 18, 2005; accessed January 20, 2013.
  4. ↑ Mahan Abeddin: Iraq's Sadrists follow Hezbollah's path . Asia Times Online, May 26, 2007 (English); accessed January 20, 2013
  5. ↑ Kenneth Katzman: Iraq: Elections, Government, and Constitution . (PDF; 46 kB) CRS Report for Congress, 2006 (English); accessed January 20, 2013
  6. ↑ Small party abandons Iraq talks . BBC News, May 12, 2006; accessed January 20, 2013
  7. ^ Shiite movement: Sadr party leaves Iraqi government . Spiegel Online , September 15, 2007; accessed January 20, 2013