Amendment To The Constitution of Iraq - Committee Appointment

Committee Appointment

The committee of 27 was appointed on 2006-09-25, chaired by Iraqi Accord Front member Ayad al-Samarrai. The committee comprised 27 members drawn from senior politicians across the political spectrum in rough proportions to the Council of Representatives of Iraq that was elected in the Iraqi legislative election of December 2005:

  • United Iraqi Alliance (Shiite): 12
    • SCIRI and allies:
      • Shaykh Hummam Hamudi
      • Shaykh Jalal al-Din al-Saghir
      • Abd al-Karim al-Naqib (Badr Organization)
      • Abbas al-Bayati (Islamic Union of Iraqi Turkoman)
    • Islamic Dawa Party - Iraq Organisation
      • Ali al-Allaq
      • Abd al-Karim al-'Anzi
    • Islamic Dawa Party
      • Sami al-'Askari
    • Islamic Virtue Party
      • Ammar Tuma
      • Hassan al-Shammari
    • independent
      • Qasim Dawud
    • unknown
      • Najiha Abd al-Amir
      • Jabir Habib Jabir
  • Kurdistani Alliance (Kurdish): 5
    • Fu'ad Ma'sum
    • Sa'd al-Barzanji
    • Feryad Rawandazi
    • Abdallah Salih
    • Ahmad Anwar Muhammad
  • Iraqi Accord Front (Sunni Arab): 4
    • Iyad al-Samarra'i
    • Hussein al-Falluji
    • Salim al-Jabburi
    • Izz al-Din al-Dawlah
  • Iraqi National List (secular): 2
    • Aliya Nassif Osairan
    • Hamid Majid Musa
  • Iraqi National Dialogue Front: 1
    • Muhammad Ali Tamim

In addition the representatives of the Turkmen, Sabeans and Yazidis were invited to nominate a member each to join the committee

The Iraqi National Dialogue Front have rejected the deal that lead to the formation of the committee and have refused to participate.

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