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Kurdistan List

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Leader
  
Barham Salih

Dissolved
  
2013

Seats in the Council of Representatives of Iraq:
  
43 / 325

Founded
  
2009 (2009)

Ideology
  
Kurdish nationalism

Kurdistan List

Preceded by
  
Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan

The Kurdistan List (Kurdish: ليست كوردستان Lîstî Kurdistani‎), also known as the Kurdistan Alliance or the Brotherhood List, is the name of the electoral coalition that ran in the Kurdistan Regional Government parliamentary elections in Iraqi Kurdistan in July 2009. The Kurdistan List represented a coalition of the two main ruling parties in Iraqi Kurdistan, namely the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. It is the successor of the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan.

The head of the Kurdistan List was the former deputy prime minister of Iraq, Dr. Barham Salih (PUK), who was later elected as the new prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan in September 2009. The Kurdistan List endorsed the incumbent and re-elected president of Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani (KDP).

2010 Iraqi elections

In the Iraqi parliamentary election, 2010 there were 11 parties in the Kurdistani List, the largest ones were the:

  • Kurdistan Democratic Party - led by Kurdish President Massoud Barzani
  • Patriotic Union of Kurdistan- led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani
  • Kurdistan Communist Party – Iraq - led by Kamal Shakir
  • Islamic Movement of Kurdistan - led by Shaykh Uthman Abd-Aziz
  • Kurdistan Toilers' Party - led by Qadir Aziz
  • Turkmen Brotherhood Movement - led by Kalkhi Najmaddin Noureddin
  • Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party
  • References

    Kurdistan List Wikipedia