National Iraqi Alliance: 2010 Parliamentary Election
The component parties of the United Iraqi Alliance contested the 2009 provincial elections separately and in August 2009 they announced a new coalition for the 2010 parliamentary election without Prime Minister Maliki's Islamic Dawa Party. The new alliance was called the National Iraqi Alliance. The chairman of the group is former Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari.
The parties taking part in the National Iraqi Alliance for the 2010 elections include:
- Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (ISCI) - led by Ammar al-Hakim
- Badr Organisation - led by Hadi al-Amiri
- Hezbollah Movement in Iraq - led by Hassan al-Sari
- Sayyid al-Shuhada - led by Daghir al-Musawi
- Sadr Movement - led by Muqtada al-Sadr
- National Reform Trend (Islah) - led by Ibrahim al-Jaafari
- Islamic Virtue Party (Fadhilah) led by Abd al-Rahim al-Hasini
- Islamic Dawa Party - Tanzim al-Dakhli - led by Abdul Karim al-Anizi
- Iraqi National Congress (INC) - led by Ahmad Challabi
- Anbar Salvation Council - led by Hamid Hayes
- Solidarity Bloc (Tadamun) - led by Qassim Daoud
- Gathering of Justice and Unity - led by Sheikh al-Faiz
- Turkmeneli Political Party
- Shiite Turkmen Movement
- Constitutional Monarchy Movement - led by Sharif Ali bin al-Hussein
- The party belonging to the Bahr al-Ulloum family - led by Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum
- The party led by Khalid Abd al-Wahhab al-Mulla
- Several Independent politicians.
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