Colours Baby blue | Political position Centre-right Seats in the local governorate councils: 1 / 440 | |
Ideology Promote Chaldean national identity, conservatism, Christian democracy | ||
The Chaldean Democratic Union is a Christian democrat political party in Iraq and within Iraqi Kurdistan a component of the Kurdistani Alliance, designed to promote the Chaldean ethnicity and heritage. They had one member in the Iraqi National Assembly - Ablahad Afraim Sawa - who was elected in both January 2005 and December 2005. The party was created with the help of the Kurdistan Regional Government after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The party won the Christian reserved seat in the Basra governorate election, 2009.
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