The Iraqis ( ar, حزب العراقيون) is an Iraqi
political party
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led by Vice-President
Ghazi al-Yawar
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawar ( ar, غازي مشعل عجيل الياور, born 1958) is an Iraqi politician. He was the Vice President of Iraq, vice president under the Iraqi Transitional Government in 2006, and was interim president of Iraq unde ...
. It was the largest
Sunni
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party to participate in the
January 2005 Iraqi 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 Transitio ...
. During the election campaign, al-Yawar was
President of Iraq
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 ...
, a then largely symbolic but still prominent position.
The party consists of an alliance of Sunni tribal leaders, led by those of al-Yawar's
Shammar
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tribe. Its eighty-candidate list contains several prominent
Shi'ite
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s. Due in large part to the low Sunni turnout, the party received only 150,000 votes in the election, placing them fourth in overall support, at 1.78% of votes cast, earning them five seats in the transitional
National Assembly of Iraq
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.
Prior to the
December 2005 elections The Iraqis agreed to merge their list with the
Iraqi List
The Iraqi List ( ar, القائمة العراقية) is a political party list in the Iraqi National Assembly election, 2005, consisting of mainly secular Shia. It is dominated by the Iraqi National Accord led by former exile and interim prime ...
of
Iyad Allawi
Ayad Allawi ( ar, إيَاد عَلَّاوِي ; born 31 May 1944) is an Iraqi politician. He served as the vice president of Iraq from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. Previously he was interim prime minister of Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and the ...
, forming 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 ...
.
The party took part in the
2010 parliamentary election as part of the
Iraqi National Movement
The Iraqi National Movement (INM) (Arabic: الحركة الوطنية العراقية ''al-Ḥaraka al-Waṭaniya al-Iraqiyya''), more commonly known as the al-Iraqiya List, was an Iraqi political coalition formed to contest the 2010 parliament ...
coalition, and won 6 seats. In the
2014 parliamentary election the party didn't win any seats.
Political parties in Iraq
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