What are all the political parties in Iraq?

[A18]

Which one is closest to me ideologically?

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

They stopped counting at 180.
No party with jihad in its name.
http://www.irc-co.com/elections/en/parties.asp

[Beet]

Cant have a meaningful election with all these parties. There are more comprehensive coalitions than this list suggests.

[A18]

Can you just list the major parties (or "coalitions"), and what they stand for? Anyone know?

[Silent Hunter]

Main ones are the United Iraqi List (Allawi's party), a quite Shia one, some people who want to restore the monarchy, some Communists and the Kurdish list.

I've probably missed a few.

[Colin]

Go to the Economist's website. They have a whole table of Iraqi Parties.

Also Phillip do some of your own research from now on.

[Tory]

-UNITED IRAQI ALLIANCE: Group of moderate Shia parties
-IRAQI LIST: Allawi's grouping
-Kurdistan Democratic Party: More conservative Kurdish party
-Patriotic Union of Kurdistan: Kurdish social-democratic party
-People's Union: communist
-Arab Democratic Front: Arab nationalist party
-Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy Movement: dedicated to restoring the monarchy

[Erc]

I thought the KDP & the PUK had merged for this election.  Didn't make much sense (as there have actually been wars between the two)...although in my opinion a divided Kurdish front could prove dangerous.

[A18]

-UNITED IRAQI ALLIANCE: Group of moderate Shia parties
-IRAQI LIST: Allawi's grouping
-Kurdistan Democratic Party: More conservative Kurdish party
-Patriotic Union of Kurdistan: Kurdish social-democratic party
-People's Union: communist
-Arab Democratic Front: Arab nationalist party
-Iraqi Constitutional Monarchy Movement: dedicated to restoring the monarchy

Geez, aren't they running on anything other than religion?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I'd vote for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, regardless of which ethnicity I was.

Is the Arab Democratic Front basically the Baath party reborn? Ideology sounds the same.

[jaichind]

All the parties in the Kurdish areas are going to run on an united front.  This means the will most likely get 99% of the vote or something like that because there is no other choice.  Reminds me of the various Saddam Hussain votes they used to have.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

All the parties in the Kurdish areas are going to run on an united front.  This means the will most likely get 99% of the vote or something like that because there is no other choice.  Reminds me of the various Saddam Hussain votes they used to have.

Actually it's more like majority black areas.

[minionofmidas]

All the parties in the Kurdish areas are going to run on an united front.  This means the will most likely get 99% of the vote or something like that because there is no other choice.  Reminds me of the various Saddam Hussain votes they used to have.

Actually it's more like majority black areas.

Nah. Jai's quite right.
The whole point of having a United List is to prevent democracy in Kurdistan...and to prevent intra-Kurdish bloodshed of course.

The way things are going, Shia turnout is going to be massive, Kurdish turnout (in the areas that were under Kurdish control before the invasion...not talking about Mossul here) is going to be massive and more-or-less coerced (think
West Belfast on a monster scale). Sunni areas turnout is going to be low...probably no voters except for those who both support the US and are extremely courageous...which I don't think makes for a large subsection. As for the mixed Arab-Kurdish areas around Mossul, nobody knows.
United Iraqi Alliance landslide win, Kurds, well I said it already, Allawi more or less destroyed likely, legitimacy of the new government doubtful.
The amount of Shia dissidence would be the most interesting result.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I see your point, I'm just sick of jaichind's hypocritical statements...

[A18]

All the parties in the Kurdish areas are going to run on an united front.  This means the will most likely get 99% of the vote or something like that because there is no other choice.  Reminds me of the various Saddam Hussain votes they used to have.

Actually it's more like majority black areas.

Nah. Jai's quite right.
The whole point of having a United List is to prevent democracy in Kurdistan...and to prevent intra-Kurdish bloodshed of course.

The way things are going, Shia turnout is going to be massive, Kurdish turnout (in the areas that were under Kurdish control before the invasion...not talking about Mossul here) is going to be massive and more-or-less coerced (think
West Belfast on a monster scale). Sunni areas turnout is going to be low...probably no voters except for those who both support the US and are extremely courageous...which I don't think makes for a large subsection. As for the mixed Arab-Kurdish areas around Mossul, nobody knows.
United Iraqi Alliance landslide win, Kurds, well I said it already, Allawi more or less destroyed likely, legitimacy of the new government doubtful.
The amount of Shia dissidence would be the most interesting result.

How does that make the legitimacy of the new government "doubtful?" They can vote in whoever they want.

[minionofmidas]

What I meant is it's highly doubtful whether the legitimacy of the elections will be accepted by a sufficiently large portion of the Iraqi people for it to be able to function.

[A18]

Will the Iraqi National Assembly be based on districts or proportional representation?

[agcatter]

What makes a government" legitimate".  LOL.  The new standard for legitimacy of a government has been been newly defined by the Democratic Party in America.  It seems to be "whether or not the Democrats win the election". 

Hell, the leftoids don't even think Bush is ligitimate.  I guess since Rove "stole" Ohio.  Cry me a river Senator Boxer.

[Colin]

Will the Iraqi National Assembly be based on districts or proportional representation?

How about you do some research Phillip instead of asking us all the time. I'm sure if you search in Google you will be able to find the answer to your question.

[minionofmidas]

What makes a government" legitimate".  LOL.  The new standard for legitimacy of a government has been been newly defined by the Democratic Party in America.  It seems to be "whether or not the Democrats win the election". 

Hell, the leftoids don't even think Bush is ligitimate.  I guess since Rove "stole" Ohio.  Cry me a river Senator Boxer.

It's purely a practical question - will it be accepted by the Iraqi people? That's "all the Iraqi people minus a small lunatic fringe", not "50%+1."
As forall your comments past line one, they are entirely irrelevant, nor do they reflect the position of more than about one poster here, so

TROLL BE GONE

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

All the parties in the Kurdish areas are going to run on an united front.  This means the will most likely get 99% of the vote or something like that because there is no other choice.  Reminds me of the various Saddam Hussain votes they used to have.

Actually it's more like majority black areas.

Except that those have primaries.

[Jake]

Will the Iraqi National Assembly be based on districts or proportional representation?

Proportional by lists

[A18]

Lists? What do you mean?

[2952-0-0]

Lists? What do you mean?

Do your own research, Philip.

[minionofmidas]

The whole country is a single constituency with 275 seats.
Seats will be distributed "exactly proportionally", which I guess is supposed to mean Sainte-Lague. There is no threshold. That means about 0.25% of the vote will be enough to gain a seat. It also means that areas with higher turnout will be overrepresented according.