The People's Union ( ar, اتحاد الشعب, ''Ittihad Al Shaab'') was an electoral coalition in

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, led by the

Iraqi Communist Party The Iraqi Communist Party ( ar, الحزب الشيوعي العراقي '; ku, Partiya Komunista Iraqê حزبی شیوعی عێراق) is a communist party and the oldest active party in Iraq. Since its foundation in 1934, it has dominated the ...

2005 elections

The People's Union was the main

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, ...

party list in the

January 2005 Iraqi legislative election Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 30 January 2005 to elect the new National Assembly, alongside governorate elections and a parliamentary election in Kurdistan Region. The 275-member legislature had been created under the Transiti ...

. It was made up of the Iraqi Communist Party and independent candidate Hikmat Dawud Hakim. Before the election, the Communist Party had attempted to form a wider coalition among secularist groups, but this effort failed. The list was led by

Hamid Majid Mousa Hamid Majid Mousa ( ar, حميد مجيد موسى) is the Secretary General of the Iraqi Communist Party. He was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq, and previously currentl ...

, who served on the Governing Council, and also included

Mufid Mohammad Jawad al-Jazairi Mufid Mohammad Jawad al-Jazairi (born 1939) was Minister of Culture in the cabinet appointed by the Interim Iraq Governing Council in September 2003 and in the Iraqi Interim Government. A Shia Muslim and member of the Iraqi Communist Party' centr ...

who served as minister of culture on the interim government. The party, while small, ran one of the more organized campaigns in the election, and its list of 257 candidates was the longest of any party. In the January elections, the People's Union received 69,920 votes, or 0.83% of ballots cast, earning them two seats in the transitional

Iraqi National Assembly 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 o ...

, where they were represented by

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and Jazairi. Prior to the December 2005 elections, the list merged with several others to join the

Iraqi National List The Iraqi National List ( ar, القائمة العراقية الوطنية) was a coalition of Iraqi political parties who ran in the December 2005 Iraqi elections and got 8.0% of the vote and 25 out of 275 seats. History Prior to the December ...

2010 election

The People's Union was reformed on 14 November 2009 to contest the 2010 election. The People's Union participated but failed to gain any seats due to new election laws requiring parties to reach a certain threshold in an province before receiving seats. During the 2010 elections the People's Union consisted of the following parties:http://www.alwaqt.com/art.php?aid=187035 *

* National Democratic Party * Democratic Chaldean Assyrian List * Arab Revolutionary Labour Party * Fraternity and Peace Party *Independent candidates

References

Defunct political party alliances in Iraq Iraqi Communist Party Secularism in Iraq {{Iraq-party-stub