The following is a list of political parties in Iraq.

Iraq is a 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.

The electoral system of Iraq favours larger parties and coalitions, but makes it difficult for a single party to dominate with a majority.

Parliamentary alliances and parties

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! colspan="2" |Party

!Leader

!Political<br />position

!Ideology

!MPs

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|Reconstruction and Development Coalition<br /><br /><small></small>

|Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani

|Centre

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|State of Law Coalition<br /><br /><small></small>

|Nouri al-Maliki

|Syncretic

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|Al-Sadiqoun Bloc<br />

|Adnan Fayhan Moussa Cheri

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|Progress Party<br /><br /><small></small>

|Mohamed Al-Halbousi

|Big tent

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|Kurdistan Democratic Party<br /><br /><small></small>

|Masoud Barzani

|Big tent

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|Badr Organization<br /><br /><small></small>

|Hadi Al-Amiri

|Right-wing

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|Patriotic Union of Kurdistan<br/><br/>

|Bafel Talabani

|Centre-left<br/>to left-wing

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|Alliance of Nation State Forces<br /><br /><small></small>

|Ammar al-Hakim

|Centre

|Shia Islam

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|Azem Alliance<br /><br /><small></small>

|Khamis al-Khanjar

|Centre

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|bgcolor=#010e2e|

|National Sovereignty Alliance<br/>

|Khamis al-Khanjar

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|bgcolor=#00777d|

|Al-Asas Coalition<br/>

|Muhsin Al-Mandalawi

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|Rights Movement<br/>

|Hassan Muanes

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|bgcolor=#892f2f|

|National Determination Alliance<br/>

|Thabit al-Abbasi

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|bgcolor=#fdbd13|

|Good News, Iraq<br/>

|Humam Hamoudi

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|Ishraqat Kanoon<br/>

|Jaafar Aziz

|Centre

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|Shibl al-Zaidi

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|Tasmim Alliance<br/>

|Sarah al-Salihi

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|Kurdistan Islamic Union<br/><br/>

|Salahaddin Bahaaddin

|Right-wing

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|National Stance Movement<br/><br/>

|Ali Hama Saleh

|Big tent

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|New Generation Movement<br /><br/>

|Shaswar Abdulwahid

|Centre

|Liberalism

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|bgcolor=#daa520|

|Al-Anbar Is Our Identity Alliance<br/>

|Mohamed Al-Halbousi

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|bgcolor=#009941|

|Nineveh for Its People<br/>

|Sheikh Abdullah Ajil Al-Yawar

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|bgcolor=#831d45|

|Wasit Ajmal Alliance<br/>

|Shibl al-Zaidi

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|National Party of the Masses<br/>

|Ahmed Abdullah al-Jubouri

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|bgcolor=#faca20|

|Qimam Coalition<br/>

|Mohamed Al-Halbousi

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|bgcolor=#002d4c|

|Tafawq Alliance<br/>

|Faisal Al-Issawi

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|bgcolor=#b48b10|

|Sumerian Movement<br/>

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|Unified Iraqi Turkmen Front<br/>

|Seman Agha

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|-

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|Al-Faw Zakho Coalition<br/>

|Amer Abdul-Jabbar

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|bgcolor=#4c6f5b|

|Saladin Unified Alliance<br/>

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|bgcolor=#f01e27|

|Nineveh's People Union<br/>

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|bgcolor=#9e080a|

|Arab Project<br/>

|Khamis al-Khanjar

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|bgcolor=#f1be85|

|Diyala First Coalition<br/>

|Nouri al-Maliki

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|Arab Alliance of Kirkuk<br/>

|Rakan al-Jubouri

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|-

|bgcolor=#00641e|

|Saladin Partnership Alliance<br/>

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|bgcolor=#77225d|

|National Identity<br/>

|Rayan al-Kildani

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|Kurdistan Justice Group<br /><br/>

|Ali Bapir

|Right-wing

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|bgcolor=#4d3936|

|Yazidi Cause Alliance<br/>

|Murad Ismael

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|bgcolor=#fa8916|

|Thabitun<br/>

|Burhan Al-Maamouri

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|bgcolor=#16cef0|

|Idraak Movement<br/>

|Akram Sharba

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|-

|bgcolor=#b92815|

|State Support Bloc<br/>

|Murtadha Al-Saadi

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Former and non-parliamentary alliances and parties

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! colspan="2" |Party

!Leader

!Political<br />position

!Ideology

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| bgcolor="" |

|Fatah Alliance<br /><br /><small></small>

|Hadi al-Amiri

|Right-wing

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|-

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|Kurdistani Coalition<br /><br/><small></small>

|Abdul Rahman Mustafa

|Big tent

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|Extension Movement<br /><br /><small></small>

|Alaa al-Rikabi

|Centre

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|-

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|Babylon Movement<br />

|Rayan al-Kildani

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|-

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|Victory Alliance<br /><br /><small></small>

|Haider al-Abadi

|Centre

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| bgcolor="#2EDBEB" |

|Alliance Towards Reforms<br /><br/><small></small>

|Hassan al-Aquli

|Big tent

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|National Coalition<br /><br /><small></small>

|Ayad Allawi

|Centre

|Secularism

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|National Wisdom Movement<br /><br /><small></small>

|Ammar al-Hakim

|Big tent

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|Uniters for Reform Coalition<br /><br /><small></small>

|Osama al-Nujaifi

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{| class="wikitable"

|+Alliance Towards Reforms "Saairun"

!colspan=2|Party

!Leader

!Political position & ideologies

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|Sadrist Movement

|Muqtada al-Sadr

|Shia Islamism<br/>Religious Conservatism<br/>Iraqi nationalism<br/>Populism<br/>Anti-imperialism

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|Iraqi Communist Party

|Raid Fahmi

|Communism<br/>Classical Marxism<br/>Reformism<br/>Secularism<br/>Nonsectarianism

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|bgcolor=#FFFFFF|

|Youth Movement for Change Party

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|bgcolor=#FFFFFF|

|Party of Progress and Reform

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|bgcolor=#FFFFFF|

|Iraqi Republican Group

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|bgcolor=#FFFFFF|

|State of Justice Party

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{| class="wikitable"

|+Victory Alliance

!colspan=2|Party

!Leader

!Political position & ideologies

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|bgcolor=red|

|Ataa Movement

|Falih Alfayyadh

|Islamic Democracy

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|bgcolor=blue|

|Popular Movement in Iraq

|Mohammed Taha al-Hamdoun

|Sunni Arab Interests<br/>Iraqi nationalism<br/>Federalism

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|bgcolor=#EEFF00|

|Iraqi National Congress

|Ahmed Chalabi

|Centrism<br/>Nonsectarianism

|}

{| class="wikitable"

|+Fatah Alliance

!colspan=2|Party

!Leader

!Political position & ideologies

|-

|bgcolor=black|

|Badr Organization

|Hadi Al-Amiri

|Shia Islamism

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|Al-Sadiqoun Bloc

|Adnan Fihan Moussa Cheri

|Shia Political Thought<br/>Religious Sectarianism

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|Islamic Virtue Party

|Ammar Tu'ma Abd Abbas

|Khomeinism<br/>Islamism<br/>Anti-Zionism

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|bgcolor=|

|National Reform Trend

|Ibrahim al-Jaafari

|Islamism

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|bgcolor=|

|Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq<br/>'<br/><small>al-Madschlis al-aʿlā l-islāmī l-ʿIrāqī</small>

|Humam Hamoudi

|Decentralization<br/>Shia Islamism<br/>Sistanism

|}

{| class="wikitable"

|+State of Law Coalition

!colspan=2|Party

!Leader

!Political position & ideologies

|-

|bgcolor=|

|Islamic Dawa Party<br/>'<br/><small>Ḥizb al Daʿwa al-Islāmiyya</small>

|Nouri al-Maliki

|Islamic democracy

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|bgcolor=#286F42|

|Islamic Dawa Party – Iraq Organisation<br/>'<br/><small>Ḥizb al Daʿwa al-Islāmiyya – Tanzim al-Iraq</small>

|Hashim Al-Mosawy

|Shia Islamism

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|bgcolor=#36829C|

|Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkoman

|Abbas al-Bayati

|Iraqi Turkmen Interests

|}

{| class="wikitable"

|+Kurdistani Coalition

!colspan=2|Party

!Leader

!Political position and Ideologies

|-

|bgcolor=|

|Kurdistan Democratic Party

|Masoud Barzani

|Kurdish nationalism<br/>Self-determination

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|bgcolor=|

|Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

|Bafel Talabani

|Kurdish nationalism<br/>Social democracy<br/>Secularism

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|bgcolor=|

|Kurdish Islamic Group

|Ali Bapir

|Salafism

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|bgcolor=|

|Kurdistan Islamic Union

|Salaheddine Bahaaeddin

|Islamic Democracy<br/>Kurdish nationalism

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|bgcolor=|

|Gorran Movement

|Omar Said Ali

|Secularism<br/>Kurdish nationalism<br/>Social liberalism<br/>Liberal Socialism<br/>Federalism<br/>Regionalism

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|bgcolor=#009999|

|National Coalition

|Aram Qadir

|Kurdish nationalism<br/>Social Democracy

|-

|bgcolor=|

|Communist Party of Kurdistan – Iraq

|Kawa Mahmud

|Communism

|-

|bgcolor=|

|Kurdistan Islamic Movement

|Ehsan Ali Abdul Aziz

|Kurdish nationalism<br/>Islamism

|-

|bgcolor=|

|Kurdistan Toilers' Party

|Balen Abdullah

|Socialism<br/>Left-wing nationalism

|-

|bgcolor=#06299C|

|Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party

|Mohammed Haji Mahmoud

|Kurdish nationalism<br/>Social Democracy

|-

|bgcolor=#E40613|

|Kurdistan Society's Freedom Movement (Tevgera Azadi)

|Tara Husên<br/>Selam Ebdulla

|Democratic confederalism

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|bgcolor=#FFFFFF|

|Yazidi Democratic Party

|Haydar Shesho

|Yazidi Rights

|-

|bgcolor=#800080|

|National Stance Movement

|Ali Hama Saleh

|Kurdish nationalism<br/>Anti-corruption

|-

|bgcolor=#FF981D|

|People's Front

|Lahur Talabani

|Kurdish nationalism<br/>Social democracy

|}

{| class="wikitable"

|+Other Parties

!colspan=2|Party

!Leader

!Political position and Ideologies

|-

|bgcolor=|

|Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council

|Shamsuddin Georgis Zaya

|Assyrian nationalism<br/>Autonomism<br/>Regionalism<br/>determination

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|bgcolor=|

|Iraqi Turkmen Front

|Arshad al-Salihi

|Regionalism<br/>Turkmen Interests

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|bgcolor=|

|Civil Democratic Alliance

|Ali Khathem Aziz

|Secularism<br/>Nonsectarianism<br/>Anti-corruption<br/>Third way

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|bgcolor=|

|Assyrian Democratic Movement

|Yonadam Kanna

|Assyrian interests <br/>Federalism

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|bgcolor=#00008B|

|Sons of Mesopotamia

|Galeta Shaba

|Assyrian nationalism<br/>Self-determination<br/>Populism

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|bgcolor=|

|Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress

|Amin Farhan Jejo

|Yazidi Interests<br/>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
  • Constitutional Monarchy Movement – led by Sharif Ali Bin al-Hussein
  • Democratic Monarchy Alliance
  • Feyli Kurd’s National Movement – led by Judge Munir Haddad
  • 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

Historical parties

{| class="wikitable"

|+Defunct parties and alliances

!Name(English)

!Name(Arabic)

!Acronym

!Leader

!Political position & ideologies

|-

|Wahdat an-Nidal

|Wahdat an-Nidal

<span lang="ar" dir="ltr">وحدة النضال</span>

| -

| -

|Communism

|-

|Shursh

|<span lang="ku" dir="ltr">Şoreş</span>

| -

| -

|Communism

|-

|Rayat ash-Shaghilah

|Rayat Ash-Shagillah

<span lang="ar" dir="ltr">راية الشغّيلة</span>

| -

|Jamal al-Haidari

|Communism

|-

|Organization of Iraqi Revolutionary Communists

|Tanzim Al-shiyo'iyyin Al-Thawriyyin Al-'Araqiyyin

<span lang="ar" dir="ltr">تنظيم الشيوعيين الثوريين العراقيين</span>

|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

<span lang="ar" dir="ltr">الفريق اللينيني في الحركة الشيوعية العراقية</span>

| -

|Khalid Abdullah as-Salam

Khalil al-Jazairi

|Communism

|-

|League of Iraqi Communists

|Al-Rabita Al-shiyo'iyyin Al-'Araqiyyin

<span lang="ar" dir="ltr">رابطة الشيوعيين العراقيين</span>

| -

|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

<span lang="ar" dir="ltr">إلى الأمام</span>

|

|Thunun Ayub

Yaqub Cohen

|Communism

|-

|Arab Unity Party

|Hizb Al-Wahda Al-Arabiya

<span lang="ar" dir="ltr">حزب الوحدة العربية</span>

|AUP

|Sobhi Abdul Hamid

|Arab socialism

|-

|Arab Struggle Party

|Hizb Al-Kifah Al-Arabi

<span lang="ar" dir="ltr">حزب الكفاح العربي</span>

|ASP

| -

|Nasserism

|-

|Arabic Toilers' Movement

|Harakt Al-Kadeheen Al-Arab

<span lang="ar" dir="ltr">حركة الكادحين العرب</span>

|ATM

|Unknown; several

|Marxist-Leninist

|-

|Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc

|Kutla al-Musalaha wa't-Tahrir

|RLB

|Misha'an al-Juburi

|Secularism<br>Arab nationalism<br>Iraqi nationalism

|-

|Constitutional Union Party

|حزب الاتحاد الدستوري

|

|Nuri al-Said

|Anti-communism<br>Arab nationalism

|-

|Party of National Brotherhood

|حزب الاخاء الوطني

|

|Naji Al-Suwaidi<br>Yasin al-Hashimi<br>Rashid Ali al-Gaylani

|Pan-Arabism<br>Arab nationalism

|-

|Socialist Nation Party

|حزب الامة الاشتراكي

|

|Salih Jabr

|Social democracy<br>Arab nationalism

|-

|Ahali group

|الأهالي

|

|Ja'far Abu al-Timman

|Populism<br>Iraqi nationalism

|-

|Unified Popular Front

|Al-Jabha Al-Sha'abiya Al-Mutahida

<span lang="ar" dir="ltr">الجبهة الشعبية المتحدة</span>

|UPF

| -

| -

|-

|Liberal Party

|حزب الاحرار

|

|Tawfiq al-Suwaidi

|Classical liberalism<br>Constitutional monarchism

|-

|National Democratic Party

|Hizb al Wataniyah al Dimuqratiyah

<span lang="ar" dir="ltr">الحزب الوطني الديمقراطي</span>

|NDP

|Kamel al-Chaderji

|Social democracy<br>Democratic socialism

|-

|United Popular Front

|الجبهة الشعبية المتحدة

|

|Taha al-Hashimi

|Reformism<br>Iraqi nationalism

|-

|Iraqi Independence Party

|حزب الاستقلال العراقي

|

|Muhammad Mahdi Kubba

|Iraqi nationalism

|-

|National Union Front

|جبهة الاتحاد الوطني

|

|

|Iraqi nationalism

|-

|Iraqi Arab Socialist Union

|الاتحاد الاشتراكي العربي العراقي

|

|Fuad al-Rikabi

|Nasserism<br>Pan-Arabism

|}

{| class="wikitable"

|+Outlawed parties

!Name(English)

!Name(Arabic)

!Acronym

!Leader

!Political position & ideologies

|-

|Hizb ut-Tahrir

|Hizb at-Tahrir

<span lang="ar" dir="ltr">حزب التحرير</span>

|HT

|Ata Abu Rashta

|Caliphalism

|-

|Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq

|Hizb al-Ba‘th al-'Arabi al-Ishtiraki fi al-'Iraq

<span lang="ar" dir="ltr">حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي في العراق</span>

| -

|Mohammed Younis al-Ahmed

|Saddamism

|-

|Al-Awda

|Al-Awda

<span lang="ar" dir="ltr">العودة</span>

| -

|Mohammed Younis al-Ahmed

|Ba'athism

|}

See also

  • Politics of Iraq
  • List of political parties by country

References

  • List of political parties participating in December 2005 election
  • Report on Iraq's New Political Map by the United States Institute of Peace