The Uniters for Reform Coalition ( ar, ائتلاف متحدون للاصلاح ''I'tilāf Muttaḥidūn lil-Iṣlāḥ'') is a Sunni political coalition in Iraq.

History

The coalition was formed in December 2012, composing ten groups, and led by

Usama al-Nujayfi Osama Abdul Aziz al-Nujaifi or Najifi ( ar, أسامة النجيفي; born c. 1956 in Mosul) is an Iraqi politician and served as one of the three vice presidents of the country, from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. As the speaker of the Council ...

. Among the groups composing Muttahidoon were several of the largest Sunni political blocs, including the Ninawa-based

al-Hadba The al-Hadba party is a political party formed to contest the 2009 Iraqi governorate elections in Ninawa province. It is mostly made up of Sunni Arabs. Its leading member Atheel al-Nujaifi is brother of Usama al-Najafi who is part of the Iraqi ...

list, the bloc of former Awakening Movement leader Ahmed Abu Risha, the National Future Gathering bloc of former Finance Minister Rafi al-Issawi, the Iraqi Islamic Party, and the Iraqi Turkmen Front. Altogether the parties aligned with the coalition had won 42 seats in the 2010 parliamentary election. For the 2013 governorate elections the coalition competed in

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, Salah ad-Din,

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...

, Anbar, and

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. In Diyala and

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the coalition joined with other political groups, running as Iraqiyat Diyala and Iraqiyat Babil. Following the 2013 governorate elections the Oum Rabih Tribes’ National Gathering of Hussein Khalaf entered into an alliance with Muttahidoon on 25 June, thereby forming the largest bloc on the Ninawa Governorate Council. The party advocates the creation of a Sunni federal region in Iraq.

Members

The following parties make up the coalition:Iraq's 2014 National Election p.37
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National Movement for Development and Reform National Movement for Development and Reform ( ar, الحركة الوطنية للاصلاح والتنمية), more commonly known as Al-Hal or the Solution, is a political party in Iraq. The party is a Sunni-based party.Mohammad Nasir Dali Ahmed *

Al-Hadba The al-Hadba party is a political party formed to contest the 2009 Iraqi governorate elections in Ninawa province. It is mostly made up of Sunni Arabs. Its leading member Atheel al-Nujaifi is brother of Usama al-Najafi who is part of the Iraqi ...

– led by

and

Atheel al-Nujaifi Atheel al-Nujaifi ( ar, أثيل النجيفي; tr, Esil Nuceyfi; born 1958) is an Iraqi politician who was the Governor of Nineveh Governorate from April 2009 until May 2015. Nujaifi was born into a Mawsili family in 1958. He is a brother ...

* Iraqi Sahwa Conference – led by Ahmed Bazi Ftikhan Abd al-Hamid * Civil Gathering for Reform (Work) – led by Salem Abdullah Ahmed Nasir * National Independent Tribal Gathering – led by Omar Hejil Hamd Shabib * National Gathering of Um al-Rabeain Tribes – led by Hussein Khalaf Alaw Hamid * Protectors of Iraq Movement (Right) – led by Ahmed Abd Hamdai Shawish al-Massari * Baghdad Belt Gathering – led by Talal Khudhair Abbas Gaed al-Zobai * People of Shirqat Independent Union – led by Mudhhi Hussein Awadh Shalal * Gathering of Saladin for Development – led by Ammar Youssif Hamoud Latouf * Land of the Grandfathers Gathering – led by Daham Iwayed Multar Ahmed * National Future Gathering – led by Dhafir Nadhim Salman Mahmoud * Iraqi Turkmen Front – led by Arshad Rashad Fatih Allah Abd al-Razaq * Iraq Awakening and Independents National Alliance * Iraqi Islamic Party

Criticisms

The coalition has been criticized by other Sunni political formations aligned with Prime Minister

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 following a Muslim Brotherhood direction, and there have been insinuations of the group having ties with groups outside Iraq.

History

Members

Criticisms

Electoral results

Iraqi Parliament

Governorate Councils

References

See also