The Kurdistan List ( ku, ليست كوردستان Lîstî Kurdistani), also known as the Kurdistan Alliance or the Brotherhood List, is the name of the electoral coalition that ran in the
Kurdistan Regional Government parliamentary elections in
Iraqi Kurdistan in July 2009. The Kurdistan List represented a coalition of the two main ruling parties in
Iraqi Kurdistan, namely the
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 Gov ...
and the
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK; ku, یەکێتیی نیشتمانیی کوردستان, translit=Yekîtiya Nîştimanî ya Kurdistanê) is a political party active in Kurdistan Region and the disputed territories in Iraq. The PUK describe ...
. It is the successor of the
Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan.
The head of the Kurdistan List was the former deputy prime minister of Iraq,
Dr. Barham Salih (PUK), who was later elected as the new prime minister of
Iraqi Kurdistan in September 2009. The Kurdistan List endorsed the incumbent and re-elected president of
Kurdistan,
Massoud Barzani (KDP).
2010 Iraqi elections
In the
2010 Iraqi parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 7 March 2010. The elections decided the 325 members of the Council of Representatives who would elect the prime minister and president. The elections resulted in a partial victory for the Iraqi Nationa ...
there were 11 parties in the Kurdistani List, the largest ones were the:
Kurdistan Alliance - 372
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*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 Gov ...
- led by Kurdish President Massoud Barzani
*Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK; ku, یەکێتیی نیشتمانیی کوردستان, translit=Yekîtiya Nîştimanî ya Kurdistanê) is a political party active in Kurdistan Region and the disputed territories in Iraq. The PUK describe ...
- led by Iraqi President
The president of Iraq is the head of state of Iraq and "safeguards the commitment to the Constitution and the preservation of Iraq's independence, sovereignty, unity, the security of its territories in accordance with the provisions of the Con ...
Jalal Talabani
*Kurdistan Communist Party – Iraq
Kurdistan ( ku, کوردستان ,Kurdistan ; lit. "land of the Kurds") or Greater Kurdistan is a roughly defined geo-cultural territory in Western Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages ...
- led by Kamal Shakir
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*Kamal (name), a male given name and surname with multiple origins
*Kamal (navigation), a navigational instrument for measuring latitude
*Kamal, Jhapa, a rural municipality in Nepal
*Alfa Romeo Kamal, an SUV by Alfa Romeo
*Oper ...
*Islamic Movement of Kurdistan
The Kurdistan Islamic Movement ( ku, بزووتنهوی ئيسلامی له كوردستان}) is a Kurdish Islamist party founded in 1987 by Osman Abdulaziz and several other Kurdish Islamic scholars who were all part of the non-political ...
- led by Shaykh Uthman Abd-Aziz
*Kurdistan Toilers' Party
Kurdistan Toilers' Party ( ku, Parti Zahmatkeshan Kurdistan) founded according to the party in 1985, is a splinter from the Kurdistan Socialist Party, and later a member of the Iraqi Kurdistan Front. Led by Khalid Zangana, now it is led by Qad ...
- led by Qadir Aziz Kadir is the primary transliteration of two Arabic male given names ( ar, قادر, also spelled Ghader, Kader, Qader, Qadir or Quadir) and ( ar, قدیر, also spelled Ghadir, Kadeer, Qadeer or Qadir). It's also one of the names of God in Islam, ...
*Turkmen Brotherhood Movement The Turkmen Democratic Movement ( tr, Türkmen Demokratik Hareketi) is a political party in Iraq that is headed by Kalkhi Najmaddin Noureddin. It acts as an alternative to the more heavily funded Iraqi Turkmen Front. The party was created by ex-Fron ...
- led by Kalkhi Najmaddin Noureddin
* Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party
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