Assembly of Independent Democrats

Assembly of Independent Democrats
Leader	Adnan Pachachi
Founded	2005 (2005)
Ideology	Liberalism Secularism Nonsectarianism
International affiliation	None
Seats in the Council of Representatives of Iraq:	2 / 325
Politics of Iraq Political parties Elections

The Assembly of Independent Democrats is an electoral coalition that participated in the January 30, 2005 National Assembly legislative election in Iraq. It was led by Adnan Pachachi (a Sunni Arab former foreign minister who was on the Iraqi Governing Council until January 2004) and his party, the Democratic Centrist Tendency. The assembly included also Dr Mahdi al-Hafez, who was the minister of planning, Dr Ayham al-Samarie,former minister of electricity, Maysun al-Damluji, deputy minister of culture, Omar al-Farouq al-Damaluji, former minister of reconstruction, Atta Abdul-Wahab, ambassador of Iraq in Jordan, Mishkat al-Mumin, former minister of environment, Leila Abdul Latif, former minister of Labor & Social Affairs, Saad Abdul-Razzaq Hussain, and some other Iraqi politicians .

In the December 2005 elections the list joined the Iraqi National List coalition headed by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.

Now the list is represented in National Assembly by Dr Adnan Pachachi and Maysun al-Damluji.

Political parties in Iraq

National Iraqi Alliance (155)

State of Law Coalition (92)	Islamic Dawa Party

Sadrists (34)	Al-Ahrar Bloc (28) Elite Movement (3) National Partnership Gathering (3)

Al-Muwatin (29)	Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (29) Al-Mehraab Martyr List Iraqi National Congress Tayyar Bada'ni

Others

Kurdistan Democratic Party (25)
Muttahidoon (23)
Al-Wataniya (21)
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (21)
Al-Arabiya Coalition (10)
Movement for Change (9)
Islamic Virtue Party (6)
National Reform Trend (6)
Diyala is Our Identity (5)
Iraq Alliance (5)
Iraqi Turkmen Front (5)
Kurdistan Islamic Union (4)
Kurdistan Islamic Group (3)
Nineveh National Alliance (3)
Civil Democratic Alliance (3)
Loyalty to Al-Anbar (3)
Iraqi Loyalty Alliance (2)
Competences and People Gathering (2)
Unity of the Iraqis (2)

Single seat groups

National Alliance of Saladin
National Coalition in Saladin
Independent Civil Alternative Coalition
Dignity Alliance
Al-Sadiqoun Bloc
The Equitable State Movement
Ad Dawa Iraq Organization
Solidarity in Iraq Alliance
Salvation Alliance
Arab Kirkuk Alliance

Reserved Christian seats

National Rafidain List (Assyrian Democratic Movement) (2)
Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council (2)
Democratic Uruk List (Iraqi Communist Party) (1)

Reserved minority seats

Hareth Shanshal Sunaid (1) [Mandaean seat]
Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress (1) [Yazidi seat]
Council of Free Shabaks (1) [Shabak seat]

Banned

Hizb ut-Tahrir
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party

Unrepresented

Badr Organization

Politics of Iraq

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