The National Democratic Party ( ar, الحزب الوطني الديمقراطي, ''Hizb al Wataniyah al Dimuqratiyah'') was an

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 Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

i political party. The party was founded in 1946 as a left-leaning opposition movement that modeled itself after the

British Labour Party The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom that has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists. The Labour Party sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum. In all ...

and grouped the non-Communist left-wing members of the former

Ahali group The al-Ahali Group ( ar, مجموعة الاهالي ) was a political association formed in 1930 by a collection of non-sectarian, middle class Iraqi youth frustrated with the Iraqi monarchy. Although it was not an official party, it was a succe ...

, of which five out of its eight cofounders had been members. It advocated

workers' rights Labor rights or workers' rights are both legal rights and human rights relating to labor relations between workers and employers. These rights are codified in national and international labor and employment law. In general, these rights inf ...

land reform Land reform is a form of agrarian reform involving the changing of laws, regulations, or customs regarding land ownership. Land reform may consist of a government-initiated or government-backed property redistribution, generally of agricultura ...

and

social democracy Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote s ...

.Hanna Batatu,
The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq: A Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of its Communists, Ba`thists and Free Officers
', 1978 At the

1948 Iraqi parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 15 June 1948 to elect the members of the Chamber of Deputies. Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I'', p97 The majority of seats were w ...

, the NDP got 2 seats out of 138. The party was closely linked with the government of

Abd al-Karim Qasim Abd al-Karim Qasim Muhammad Bakr al-Fadhli al-Zubaidi ( ar, عبد الكريم قاسم ' ) (21 November 1914 – 9 February 1963) was an Iraqi Army brigadier and nationalist who came to power when the Iraqi monarchy was overthrown d ...

, in which, out of fourteen ministers, three (Finances, Agriculture, Guiding) were NDP members, one (Foreign Affairs) was 'close to NDP', and two (Development, Communications) were former NDP members, all either Arab Sunnis, Arab Shias or Kurdish Sunni. With the

Nasserite Nasserism ( ) is an Arab nationalist and Arab socialist political ideology based on the thinking of Gamal Abdel Nasser, one of the two principal leaders of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and Egypt's second President. Spanning the domestic a ...

coup in 1963, the party officially ceased to exist. It was however revived in 2003 under the same name by

Naseer al-Chaderchi Naseer Kamel al-Chaderchi was a member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, created following the United States's 2003 invasion of Iraq. al-Chaderchi is a Sunni Muslim and the leader of the National Democratic Party. A resident of Baghdad, al-C ...

, son of NDP former leader Kamil al-Chaderchi.

References

1946 establishments in Iraq 1963 disestablishments in Iraq Defunct socialist parties in Iraq Democratic socialist parties in Asia Political parties disestablished in 1963 Political parties established in 1946 Social democratic parties in Iraq {{Iraq-party-stub