Kurdistan list

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The Kurdistan List ( Kurdish Lîstî Kurdistan ) is a party alliance from the Iraqi region of Kurdistan , which ran in the parliamentary elections in March 2010 . The Kurdistan List is the successor to the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan , which took part in the elections on January 30 and December 15, 2005.

composition

The list consists of the following parties:

• Democratic Party of Kurdistan
• Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
• Kurdish Communist Party
• Islamic Movement in Kurdistan
• Kurdish Workers Party
• Turkmen Democratic Movement
• Social Democratic Party of Kurdistan

Elections January 30, 2005

The Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan was the second largest force in the elections on January 30th with 25.7% of the vote and got 71 of the 275 seats in the new Iraqi parliament. It formed a government coalition with the winners of the election, the predominantly Shiite United Iraqi Alliance , and has eight ministers in the 32-member cabinet of the new Iraqi government .

The Kurdistan Islamic Group has joined after the elections for the faction of the "List of the Alliance of Kurdistan". The Kurdish parliamentary group now has 77 members in the Iraqi National Assembly. Listed are some of the larger parties:

• Kurdish Democratic Party A more traditionalist Kurdish party, led by Masud Barzani
• Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Kurdish Social Democrats, founded and led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani
• Assyrian Patriotic Party or Assyrian National Party , a party of Assyrian Christians
• Kurdish Communist Party
• Socialist Democratic Party of Kurdistan
• Party of the Working People of Kurdistan (Labor Party)
• Beth-Nahrain Democratic Party
• Chaldean Democratic Union
• Islamic Union Kurdistan

Elections of December 15, 2005

The Islamic Union of Kurdistan ( Muslim Brotherhood affiliated party) separated from the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan before the Iraqi parliamentary election. For this, the Islamic Community in Kurdistan joined. The alliance now consisted of only eight parties. The alliance received 21.7% of the vote in the elections and thus got 53 of 275 seats.

• Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
• Kurdish Democratic Party
• Kurdish Communist Party
• Socialist Democratic Party of Kurdistan
• Party of the Working People of Kurdistan (Labor Party)
• Islamic community in Kurdistan
• Chaldean Democratic Union
• Turkmen Brotherhood Party

Elections March 7, 2010

Ahead of the elections, the split of Nawshirwan Mustafa mentioned movement of change ( Rewtî Gorran ) on the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan and ran as an independent alliance in the elections. The Islamic Union Kurdistan and the Islamic Community in Kurdistan did not join the list either. In the elections they received 14.59% of the vote and thus had 43 seats in the Baghdad parliament.

Web links

• Election results in Iraq and Kurdistan-Iraq (PDF; 35 kB)