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2018 Iraqi Parliamentary Election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 12 May 2018. The elections decided the 329 members of the Council of Representatives, the country's unicameral legislature, who in turn will elect the Iraqi President and Prime Minister. The Iraqi parliament ordered a manual recount of the results on 6 June 2018. On 10 June 2018, a storage site in Baghdad housing roughly half of the ballots from the May parliamentary election caught fire. In October 2018, Adil Abdul-Mahdi was selected as Prime Minister five months after the elections. This election would be the last held under the Webster/Sainte-Laguë method of proportional representation, as electoral reforms passed in 2019 amid the 2019–2021 Iraqi protests created a district-based system, and sought to have representatives represent more local voices (as opposed to the entire governorate they were previously elected from), reduce deadlocks resulting from inconclusive coalition talks, as well as stop infighting amongst list membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Council Of Representatives Of Iraq
The Council of Representatives ( ar, مجلس النواب, Majlis an-Nuwwāb al-ʿIrāqiyy; ku, ئهنجومهنی نوێنهران, ''Enjumen-e Nûnerên''), usually referred to simply as the Parliament is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Iraq. As of 2020, it comprises 329 seats and meets in Baghdad inside the Green Zone. History The monarchy An elected Iraqi parliament first formed following the establishment of a Mandatory Iraq, constitutional monarchy in 1925. The 1925 constitution called for a bicameral parliament whose lower house, the Chamber of Deputies of Iraq or Council of Representatives (''Majlis an-Nuwwab'') would be elected based on universal manhood suffrage. The upper house, the Senate of Iraq (''Majlis al-A`yan'') was appointed by the king. Sixteen elections took place between 1925 and the coup of 1958. On January 17, 1953 1953 Iraqi parliamentary election, elections for the Chamber of Deputies (also known as the National Assembly) took p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islamic Dawa Party
The Islamic Dawa Party, also known as the Islamic Call Party ( ar, حزب الدعوة الإسلامية, Ḥizb ad-Daʿwa al-Islāmiyya), is an Shia Islamist political party in Iraq. Dawa and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council are two of the main parties in the religious-Shiite United Iraqi Alliance, which won a plurality of seats in both the provisional January 2005 Iraqi election and the longer-term December 2005 election. The party is led by Haider al-Abadi, who was the Prime Minister of Iraq from 8 September 2014 to 25 October 2018. The party backed the Iranian Revolution and also Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during the Iran–Iraq War and the group still receives financial support from Tehran despite ideological differences with the Islamic Republic. History Hizb Al-Dawa was formed in 1957 by Mohammed Saqik. His aim was to create a party and a movement which would promote Islamic values and ethics, political awareness, combat secularism, and create an Islamic state i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Muwatin
Citizen Alliance ( ar, Al-Muwatin, ar, ائتلاف المواطن) was a political coalition in Iraq led by Ammar al-Hakim, President of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, from 2014 to 2017. Most of its MPs joined the National Wisdom Movement when this new party was launched in 2017 by Ammar al-Hakim. History Al-Muwatin was a broad alliance of 23 various Iraqi, primarily Shia, political entities that formed a coalition for the 2014 Iraqi parliamentary election. It was announced by its leader Ammar al-Hakim in March 2014. Members of the coalition *Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq – led by Ammar al-Hakim *Al-Mehraab Martyr List *Iraqi National Congress – led by Ahmed Chalabi *Tayyar Bada'na – led by Jawad al Boulani 2014 parliamentary elections Al-Muwatin won 29 seats in the 2014 Iraqi Parliament as follows: *Babil Governorate – 3 seats *Baghdad Governorate – 5 seats *Basra Governorate – 6 seats *Dhi Qar Governorate – 4 seats * Diyala Governorate – 1 seat *Kar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ammar Al-Hakim
Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim ( ar, سید عمار الحكيم) is an Iraqi cleric and politician who led the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, from 2009 to 2017. Early life Al-Hakim was born in 1971 in Al-Najaf, the son of Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim, who preceded him as leader of ISCI, and the grandson of Muhsin al-Hakim, who led the Iraqi Marja' from 1961. He is a member of the Hakim family of clerics. Exile He went into exile in Iran in 1979 with his father after the government of Saddam Hussein had executed seven of his uncles and sixty two of his relatives. He attended private schools in Tehran and graduated from the Islamic Arabic University in Qom. He taught Arabic language, Islamic jurisprudence, logic, philosophy and the science of the Qur'an at the same university for several years. Career He supervises the establishment and management of many organizations, Scientific and Cultural Institution in the exile, including the House of Wisdom for Islamic Science. In 2003 he establishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ammar : * Ammar (name), given name of Arabic origin. Meaning “The Creator” * Given names * Ammar Abdulhamid, Syrian writer * Ammar Campa-Najjar, American politician * Ammar bin Humaid Al Nuaimi, Crown Prince of the Emirate of Ajman * Ammar al-Qurabi, Syrian human rights activist * Ammar ibn Yasir, one of the companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad Surname * Al-Hasan ibn Ammar, Arab commander and statesman for the Fatimid Caliphate. * Michael Ammar, American magician * Muhammad ibn Ammar, Muwallad poet from Silves * Rachid Ammar, chief of staff of the Tunisian Armed Forces See also * Amar (other) * Amr (name) * Omar (name) Omar/Umar ( ar, عمر) is a masculine given name that has different origins in three languages across the world (Arabic, Hebrew and Germanic) even though it is best known as an Arabic name and the name Omar was mentioned in the Old Testament. Oma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurdistan Democratic Party
The Kurdistan Democratic Party ( ku, Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistanê; پارتی دیموکراتی کوردستان), usually abbreviated as KDP or PDK, is the largest party in Iraqi Kurdistan and the senior partner in the Kurdistan Regional Government. It was founded in 1946 in Mahabad in Iranian Kurdistan. The party states that it combines "democratic values and social justice to form a system whereby everyone in Kurdistan can live on an equal basis with great emphasis given to rights of individuals and freedom of expression." The KDP is dominated by the Barzani tribe and described as a Kurdish nationalist big tent party. History Foundation In 1946, the leader of the Soviet-backed Republic of Mahabad, Qazi Muhammad, announced the formation of a "Kurdish Democratic Party" based in Iran, or Eastern Kurdistan. The Soviet Union, then supporting the Kurdish national struggle against the monarchies of Iran and Iraq, instructed Mustafa Barzani to place himself under the authori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nechirvan Barzani
Nechirvan Idris Barzani ( ku, نێچیرڤان بارزانی, translit=Nêçîrvan Barzanî; born 21 September 1966) is a Kurdish politician serving as the second President of Kurdistan Region, Iraq. He was elected into office by the Kurdistan Region Parliament in June 2019. Nechirvan Barzani was appointed as Vice President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party since 2010. He previously served as Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government from March 2007 to August 2009 and March 2012 to May 2019. Nechirvan Barzani is also the founder of the University Of Kurdistan - Hewler, the region's top ranking university located in Erbil. His rule combines aspects of Kurdish nationalism, secularism, modernism and reforms, reforms in agriculture and women's rights. Early years Nechirvan Barzani was born in 1966 in the village of Barzan, Kurdistan Region. The name Nêçîrvan means ''hunter''. Barzani's surname originates from his birthplace of Barzan. He is the grandson of Mustafa Barz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islamic Dawa Party – Iraq Organisation
The Islamic Dawa Party – Iraq Organisation ( Arabic: ''Ḥizb al Daʿwa al-Islāmiyya - Tanzim al-Iraq'') is a political party in Iraq which is a component of the United Iraqi Alliance. It split from the Islamic Dawa Party during the regime of Saddam Hussein when most of the leaders of Dawa were in exile. It was allocated 12 seats by the Alliance after the elections in December 2005. It is led by Hashim Al-Mosawy, who is its Secretary-General. The head of the parliamentary bloc of the party is Kasim Muhammad Taqi al-Sahlani. The Islamic Dawa Party was formed in 1957 in the Iraqi holy City of Najaf. Their aim was to create a movement which would promote Islamic values and ethics, and which would become an instrument for political activeness. This came at a time when there was widespread ignorance about religion and politics in Iraq. Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr laid out the foundations for the party and its political ideology, based on Wilayat Al-Umma (Governance of the people). R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nouri Al-Maliki
Nouri Kamil Muhammad-Hasan al-Maliki ( ar, نوري المالكي; born 20 June 1950), also known as Jawad al-Maliki (), is secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party and was the prime minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014 and the vice president of Iraq from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. Al-Maliki began his political career as a Shia dissident under Saddam Hussein's in the late 1970s and rose to prominence after he fled a death sentence into exile for 24 years. During his time abroad, he became a senior leader of the Islamic Dawa Party, coordinated the activities of anti-Saddam guerrillas and built relationships with Iranian and Syrian officials whose help he sought in overthrowing Saddam. Al-Maliki worked closely with United States and coalition forces in Iraq following their departure by the end of 2011. Al-Maliki was Iraq's first full-term post-war prime minister. He was appointed by U.S. Armed Forces Coalition leader Michael Douglas Barbero. He and his government succeeded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Nuri (also spelled Nouri, Noori, Nori or Noory, ar, نوري, ko, 누리, syr, ܢܘܪܝ) is a name which may refer to: Given name * Nuri Ja'far (1914 – 1991), Iraqi psychologist and philosopher of education * NOURI (artist) (born 1993), New Zealand recording artist of Kurdish descent * Nuri Badran (born 1943), Iraqi politician * Nuri Bengali (died 1785), Sufi scholar and author *Nuri Berköz (1889–1975), Azerbaijani general * Nuri Boytorun (1908–1988), Turkish wrestler *Nuri Bilge Ceylan (born 1959), Turkish filmmaker *Nuri Demirağ (1886–1957), Turkish industrialist *Nuri Killigil (1881–1949), general in the Ottoman army *Nuri Kino (born 1965), Swedish journalist and filmmaker *Nouri al-Maliki (born 1950), Prime Minister of Iraq *Nuri Montsé (1917–1971), Argentine actress *Nuri Ok (1942–2015), Turkish judge *Nouri Ouznadji (born 1984), Algerian footballer *Nuri as-Said (1888–1958), Iraqi politician *Nuri Sojliu (1870–1940), signatory of the Albanian Declar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victory Alliance
The Victory Alliance ( ar, ائتلاف النصر, iʾtilāf al-naṣr) is a Islamic democracy, Muslim democratic Iraqi political alliance established by former Prime Minister of Iraq, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. History The alliance was founded on 14 December 2017 by former Prime Minister of Iraq, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. Although a coalition was initially created between the Fatah Alliance, Conquest Alliance and the Victory Alliance, (named Victory for Iraq), on 15 January the Conquest Alliance withdrew because they would not have gained as many seats and some groups involved in the Victory Alliance were alleged to be involved in corruption. See also * Alliance towards Reforms * Fatah Alliance * National Wisdom Movement * State of Law Coalition References External links Official Website {{Iraqi political parties 2017 establishments in Iraq Iran–Iraq relations Islamic political parties in Iraq Political parties established in 2017 Political parti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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