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The State of Law Coalition ( ar, إئتلاف دولة القانون ''I'tilāf Dawlat al-Qānūn''), also known as Rule of Law Coalition, is an
In the
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...
i political coalition formed for the 2009 Iraqi governorate elections
Governorate or provincial elections were held in Iraq on 31 January 2009, to replace the local councils in fourteen of the eighteen governorates of Iraq that were elected in the 2005 Iraqi governorate elections. 14,431 candidates, including 3,91 ...
by the Prime Minister of Iraq at the time, 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 the 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 ...
.
The name was an emphasis on the improved security situation which Maliki's government had achieved through the Battle of Basra and other operations of the Iraqi Security Forces.
Due to disagreements with the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq
The Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI or SIIC; ar, المجلس الأعلى الإسلامي العراقي ''Al-Majlis Al-A'ala Al-Islami Al-'Iraqi''; previously the party was known as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq ...
and the Sadrists, the Dawa Party decided not to join the Iraqi National Alliance for 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 ...
, but run in their own coalition: the State of Law Coalition.
2009 governorate elections
In the 2009 Iraqi governorate elections
Governorate or provincial elections were held in Iraq on 31 January 2009, to replace the local councils in fourteen of the eighteen governorates of Iraq that were elected in the 2005 Iraqi governorate elections. 14,431 candidates, including 3,91 ...
, the State of Law Coalition was composed of several political blocs:
*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 ...
– led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
*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 S ...
– led by Hashim Al-Mosawy
Hashim Al-Mosawy (1939 - 2016) was an Iraqi politician who was the leader and Secretary-General of the Islamic Dawa Party - Iraq Organisation, the fifth-largest party within the ruling United Iraqi Alliance coalition.
He was born in Basra, Iraq ...
*Independent Bloc – led by Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani
Hussain Ibrahim Saleh al-Shahristani (born 1942) is an Iraqi politician who served in different cabinet posts, including as Iraq's Minister of Higher Education.
Early life and education
al-Shahristani was born in 1942 in Karbala, Iraq. He hail ...
*Solidarity Bloc – led by former minister of state and Iraqi MP Qassim Daoud
Kassim Abbas Daoud (born April 13, 1949) is an Iraqi scientist and politician. Born in Al Hillah, he graduated from Baghdad University in 1971. He then studied in Britain, earning a doctorate in microbiology and environment in 1982 from the Univers ...
*Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkoman
The Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkoman (or Turkoman Islamic Union, ar, الاتحاد الإسلامي لتركمان العراق) is a political party in Iraq led by Abbas al-Bayati. It was formed in 1991 and participated in discussions with other ...
– led by Iraqi MP Abbas al-Bayati
Natik Abbas Hasan al-Bayati is an Iraqi Shiite Turkmen politician and a member of the Iraqi National Assembly. He is a member of the State of Law Coalition.
He was exiled from Iraq under Saddam Hussein and became the Secretary General of the I ...
*Kurdish Feli Fraternity Movement
*Shaabani Uprising Bloc 1991
* Independents, there were also numerous independent candidates in the list.
Results
The State of Law Coalition came out as the largest list receiving 19.1% of the vote and 126 out of 440 seats.2010 parliamentary election
In the2010 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 ...
, the following parties were part of the State of Law Coalition:
*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 ...
– led by Iraqi 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 ...
*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 S ...
– led by Hashim Al-Mosawy
Hashim Al-Mosawy (1939 - 2016) was an Iraqi politician who was the leader and Secretary-General of the Islamic Dawa Party - Iraq Organisation, the fifth-largest party within the ruling United Iraqi Alliance coalition.
He was born in Basra, Iraq ...
* Anbar Salvation National Front – led by Sheikh Ali Hatem al-Suleiman
Ali Hatem Abd al-Razzaq Ali al-Suleiman al-Assafi al-Dulaimi ( ar, علي حاتم السليمان) (born 1971) is a Sunni sheikh in Al Anbar Governorate, Anbar province. father of (abdulaziz,fazza and dulaim). He is the current Emir of the Dulai ...
*Independent Arab Movement – led by former Deputy Prime Minister Abid Mutlak al-Jubouri
*United Independent Iraqi Bloc – led by Thaer al-Feyli
*Independent Iraqi Kafaat Gathering – led by government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh
Ali Aldabbagh (born 18 July 1955) is an Iraqi engineer, businessman and politician who served as government spokesman until November 2012.
Early life and education
Aldabbagh was born in Kerbala on 18 July 1955. He hails from a Shiite family. He ...
*The Gathering—Al-Tajamo – led by former 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 ...
members Mahdi al-Hafez and Safiyah Suheil
*Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkoman
The Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkoman (or Turkoman Islamic Union, ar, الاتحاد الإسلامي لتركمان العراق) is a political party in Iraq led by Abbas al-Bayati. It was formed in 1991 and participated in discussions with other ...
– led by Abbas al-Bayati
Natik Abbas Hasan al-Bayati is an Iraqi Shiite Turkmen politician and a member of the Iraqi National Assembly. He is a member of the State of Law Coalition.
He was exiled from Iraq under Saddam Hussein and became the Secretary General of the I ...
*"The Independents" led by Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani
Hussain Ibrahim Saleh al-Shahristani (born 1942) is an Iraqi politician who served in different cabinet posts, including as Iraq's Minister of Higher Education.
Early life and education
al-Shahristani was born in 1942 in Karbala, Iraq. He hail ...
* Independents, there were again numerous independent candidates in the list initially including defence minister Qadir al-Obeidi but he was banned from joining due to Ba'ath party links.
Results
2013 governorate elections
In the2013 Iraqi governorate elections
Governorate or provincial elections were held in Iraq on 20 April 2013, to replace the local councils in the governorates of Iraq that were elected in the Iraqi governorate elections of 2009. Elections took place in 12 of Iraq's 18 governorates. ...
, the State of Law Coalition was composed of several political blocs:
*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 ...
– led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
*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 S ...
*Independent Bloc – led by Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani
Hussain Ibrahim Saleh al-Shahristani (born 1942) is an Iraqi politician who served in different cabinet posts, including as Iraq's Minister of Higher Education.
Early life and education
al-Shahristani was born in 1942 in Karbala, Iraq. He hail ...
* Badr Organization – led by Hadi Al-Amiri
*National Reform Trend
The National Reform Trend, also known as the National Reform Movement or as Islah (), is an Iraqi political party that was founded in 2008 by former Iraqi prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari. It is a Shiite-Islamic-based party.
Jaafari was the s ...
– led by former Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Ibrahim Abd al-Karim al-Eshaiker ( ar, إبراهيم عبد الكريم الأشيقر; born 25 March 1947), also known as Ibrahim al-Jaafari, is an Iraqi politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq in the Iraqi Transitional Government from 200 ...
*Islamic Virtue Party
Islamic Virtue Party (in Arabic حزب الفضيلة الإسلامي العراقي, transliterated as Ḥizb al-Faḍīla al-Islāmiyya al-ʿIrāqi or just Al-Faḍīla Party) is an Iraqi political party.
After the 2003 Iraq War, the Hizb al- ...
– led by Abd al-Rahim al-Hasini
Abd al-Rahim Ahmad Ali al-Hasini is an Iraqi politician and secretary-general of the Shia Islamist Islamic Virtue Party, which is based in Basra.
He succeeded Nadim al-Jabiri in May 2006, and told Al-Hayat newspaper that the party planned to pro ...
*Solidarity Bloc – led by former minister of state and Iraqi MP Qassim Daoud
Kassim Abbas Daoud (born April 13, 1949) is an Iraqi scientist and politician. Born in Al Hillah, he graduated from Baghdad University in 1971. He then studied in Britain, earning a doctorate in microbiology and environment in 1982 from the Univers ...
*Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkoman
The Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkoman (or Turkoman Islamic Union, ar, الاتحاد الإسلامي لتركمان العراق) is a political party in Iraq led by Abbas al-Bayati. It was formed in 1991 and participated in discussions with other ...
– led by Iraqi MP Abbas al-Bayati
Natik Abbas Hasan al-Bayati is an Iraqi Shiite Turkmen politician and a member of the Iraqi National Assembly. He is a member of the State of Law Coalition.
He was exiled from Iraq under Saddam Hussein and became the Secretary General of the I ...
* White Iraqiya Bloc – led by Hassan Alawi
*Kurdish Feli Fraternity Movement
*Shaabani Uprising Bloc 1991
* Independents, there were also numerous independent candidates in the list.
Results
2014 parliamentary election
2018 parliamentary election
References
{{Islamism 2009 establishments in Iraq Islamic political parties in Iraq Shia Islamic political parties Political parties established in 2009 Political party alliances in Iraq Axis of Resistance