Election to the Council of Representatives in Iraq 2014

The 2014 election to the Iraqi Council of Representatives was the third general election since the fall of Saddam Hussein and the first since the US troops withdrew in late 2011.

former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (2014)

background

Since the 2010 election, the then Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has systematically accumulated more power. As the commanding army and police force, he submitted to his control and issued arrest warrants against prominent Sunnis . As a far-reaching consequence, many tribal leaders in al-Anbar province turned away from him. This left the field to the Islamic State . Since then, Maliki has also fallen out with the Kurds , with the issue of Kurdish oil production. Despite these many conflicts, he sought a third term. For the first time, the Kurds did not appear as a closed bloc. The Sunni alliance of 2010 broke up. The best prospects for the 2014 election were attested to the then Speaker of Parliament, Usama an-Nujaifi . Like Maliki, Nujaifi did not try to bridge the religious divide. He relied on the discontent of the Sunnis, thereby fueling the Shiite fear of a renewed loss of power and Sunni terror. Then again Maliki bet. But he was opposed to a wide range of Shiite parties.

Candidates

For the 328 seats in parliament, 9032 candidates ran on dozen of lists.

course

The vote took place on Wednesday, April 30th , under high security precautions. Nevertheless there were several attacks. The security precautions included the deployment of several hundred thousand soldiers and police officers, and the airport was closed during the night from Monday to Tuesday. In addition, the borders between the provinces were closed and in some parts of the country there was a driving ban between seven and six o'clock during the vote. In the western province of Al-Anbar , where the government and the extremists of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria have been fighting for months , there was a low turnout, according to observers. The IS had massively intimidated residents in advance. 26 people died in incidents across the country, although more than 160 people had been killed in attacks in the week before the election. The election commission published the results on Monday, May 19, in Baghdad .

Official end result

The previous Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki won the parliamentary elections clearly. His rule of law alliance and he won 92 of the 328 seats in the future Iraqi parliament.

Allocation of seats and voting shares

Alliance / party	Seats	%	Religion / people
Rule of Law Coalition	92	28%	shiite.
Citizens Alliance	29	8.8%	shiite.
Ahrar block	28	8.5%	shiite.
Association for Reform	23	7%	sunni.
National coalition	21st	6.4%	secular
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan	19th	5.8%	kurd.
Democratic Party of Kurdistan	17th	5.2%	kurd.
Arab coalition	10	3%	sunni.
Gorran	9	2.7%	kurd.
Nineveh-Kurdistan Alliance	6th	1.8%	kurd.
Iraqi Islamic Values ​​Party	6th	1.8%	shiite.
National Reform Trend (Islah)	6th	1.8%	shiite.
Iraq Alliance	5	1.5%	secular
Coalition of Diyala Our Identity	5	1.5%
Islamic Union Kurdistan	4th	1.2%	kurd.
6 others	3 each	0.9% each
8 others	2 each	0.6% each
14 others	1 each	0.3% each
Total seats	328
Eight seats from “others” are held by minorities Source: alsumaria.tv , ISW

Mandate distribution

New President Fuad Masum (2014)

New Prime Minister al-Abadi (2014)

In contrast to the last election, the parliament was increased to 328 seats. Eight of these seats are reserved for ethnic and religious minorities. The compensation seats were omitted this time.

Governorate ( muhafazat )	Seats	difference
Baghdad (بغداد)	69	+1
Ninawa (نينوى)	32
Basra (البصرة)	25th	+1
Dhi Qar (ذي قار)	19th	+1
as-Sulaimaniya (السليمانية)	18th	+1
Bable (بابل)	17th	+1
al-Anbar (الأنبار)	15th	+1
Erbil (أربيل)	15th	+1
Diyala (ديالى)	14th	+1
Najaf (النجف)	12
Kirkuk (كركوك)	12
Salah ad-Din (صلاح الدين)	12
al-Qadisiya (القادسية)	11
al-Wasit (واسط)	11
Dahuk (دهوك)	11	+1
Karbala (كربلاء)	11	+1
Maisan (ميسان)	10
al-Muthanna (المثنى)	7th
Compensation seats (minorities)	8th
Compensation seats	0	−7
Total:	328

⁽¹⁾Information according to ISW

Government formation

On July 15, 2014, around two months after the official election results were announced , Salim al-Jaburi was elected President of the Council of Representatives with 194 votes to 79 in the third ballot. This is a prerequisite for the election of a new head of state, who in turn nominates the future prime minister. A few days later, on July 24th, Fuad Masum was elected President of Iraq by 211 to 17 votes. On August 11, he instructed Haider al-Abadi to form a new government against the will of the then Prime Minister Maliki . Maliki accused Masum of violating the constitution and filed a constitutional complaint against him. Before Maliki resigned from his post "in favor of" al-Abadi, he announced that he would withdraw the lawsuit.

Web links

• http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/startseite/maliki-gewinnt-die-wahl-im-irak-1.18305780
• http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/bildung-einer-neuen-regierung-im-irak-iraks-ministerpraesident-al-maliki-verzierter-auf-sein-amt-1.2090201

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inga Rogg, Baghdad: The fear of the day after. In: nzz.ch. April 29, 2014, accessed on 14 October 2018 . 
2. ↑ voters in Baghdad defy the terror. In: sueddeutsche.de . April 30, 2014, accessed October 13, 2018 . 
3. ^ Inga Rogg, Baghdad: Voting under extreme conditions. In: nzz.ch. April 30, 2014, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
4. ^ Paul-Anton Krüger: For the third time Maliki. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 2, 2014, accessed October 13, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Al-Maliki's government alliance lacks a majority. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 19, 2014, accessed October 13, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Inga Rogg, Baghdad: Maliki wins the election in Iraq. In: nzz.ch. May 19, 2014, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
7. ↑ National Reform Trend (English WP)
8. ↑ New parliamentary president elected on the third attempt. In: sueddeutsche.de . July 15, 2014, accessed October 13, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Kurd Masum is the new president in Iraq. In: sueddeutsche.de . July 24, 2014, accessed October 13, 2018 . 
10. ↑ Iraq's Prime Minister Maliki resigns from office. In: sueddeutsche.de . August 14, 2014, accessed October 13, 2018 .