Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan
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The Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan is the name of the electoral coalition being presented as a united Kurdish list in the 2005 election in Iraq. Elections are simultaneously being held for the assembly of the Kurdistan Regional Government. The Alliance represents a coalition of the two main Kurdish parties, the Kurdish Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan – once engaged in a civil war with each other – along with many smaller groups.
- Kurdish Democratic Party
- Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
- Kurdistan Islamic Union
- Kurdistan Communist Party
- Kurdistan Democratic Socialist Party
- Democratic Baith-Nahrain Party
- Assyrian Patriotic Party or Assyrian National Party
- Chaldean Democration Union
- Kurdish Toilers Party
- several smaller parties, including at least one Turkmen group
The alliance received 1,570,663 votes to the Kurdistan National Assembly, or 90% of the vote.
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"Iraqi Christian Campaigning Hindered by Dangers, Lack of Funding (http://www.aina.org/news/20050115140622.htm)." Assyrian International News Agency. Accessed on 15 January, 2005.
