The Iraqi National List is a coalition of Iraqi political parties who ran in the December 2005 Iraqi elections and got 8.0% of the vote and 25 out of 275 seats. The most important part of the coalition is Iraqi National Accord of Iyad Allawi and the candidates and parties that made up the Iraqi List, the third most popular coalition in the January 2005 election, which captured 13.82% of the vote.
Read more about Iraqi National List: History, Member Parties, December 2005 Election Results
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