60 new parties are running in the elections for the first time out of 109, some of which are led by

[size=52]60 new parties are running in the elections for the first time out of 109, some of which are led by Abdul-Mahdi's replacements and ministers[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]Sixty parties are running for the first time in the upcoming legislative elections out of 100 parties outside alliances and coalitions. And former ministers and former candidates for prime minister lead 8 of these parties, most of which are participating for the first time.[/size]
[size=45]Seven parties - outside the alliances - represent the Kurdish and Turkmen forces, compared to 8 parties representing the other components (minorities).[/size]
[size=45]At least 6 parties are participating in the elections headed by figures who have factions affiliated with the Popular Mobilization, and others outside the Commission.[/size]
[size=45]A representative from Basra headed a new party, while other parties carried names specialized in education and the economy.[/size]
[size=45]Also, about 7 new parties bore names related to change and reform, achievement, correction, decisiveness, and sacrifice.[/size]
[size=45]According to the Electoral Commission, the number of parties that will participate in the upcoming elections is 109, and 58 parties participate in alliances.[/size]
[size=45]Abdul Mahdi's replacements[/size]
[size=45]And 3 of the former candidates for the position of prime minister decided after the October protests (two of them had been officially appointed) to run in the elections with new parties.[/size]
[size=45]Muhammad Tawfiq Allawi, who was appointed after the resignation of the government of Adel Abdul-Mahdi at the end of 2019, leads the "Saviors" party, which is participating for the first time.[/size]
[size=45]The party led by Allawi, who previously headed the Ministry of Communications, includes 60 candidates, while the party has recently witnessed withdrawals among its members.[/size]
[size=45]Muhammad Shiaa al-Sudani, a dissident deputy from the Dawa Party and a former candidate for the position of prime minister (he was not officially appointed), leads the Euphrates Movement.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sudani, who submitted his resignation from the call at the end of 2019 in preparation for being the alternative to Abdul-Mahdi - according to the leaks at the time - submitted 23 candidates in his party, which is participating for the first time. On the other hand, the other candidate, who was officially assigned to run the government after the resignation of Abdul-Mahdi, Adnan Al-Zorfi, is running in the elections through his party, the Iraqi Al-Wafa Movement.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Zorfi, a deputy in Parliament, entered the competition more than once through his party, this time presenting 73 candidates for the party.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Zorfi, a former governor of Najaf, depends on his popularity in the province and his closeness to the protesters, for his high chances in the elections.[/size]
[size=45]Ministers' parties[/size]
[size=45]At the level of ministers, the former Minister of Transport, Amer Abdel-Jabbar, formed the Al-Faw and Zakho grouping to contest the elections.[/size]
[size=45]The party, which is participating for the first time in the elections, includes a number of economists and cadres of the Ministry of Transport, and it presents 32 candidates.[/size]
[size=45]The party is also considered one of the parties of the October protests, especially since it (the party) was a participant in the Babylon Conference, which was held by the Tishreen forces a few months ago.[/size]
[size=45]Also, the former Minister of Interior in Abdul-Mahdi's government, Yassin al-Yasiri, heads a new party that is participating for the first time in the elections.[/size]
[size=45]Wathiqoon is the name of the party affiliated with Al-Yasiri, and it includes a number of former officers in the Ministry of Interior, and it presented 19 candidates.[/size]
[size=45]In the same way, the former Minister of Sports, Abdel-Hussein Abtan, a dissident from the Al-Hikma Movement, formed the Iqtidar Watan Party to run in the elections for the first time, and presented 50 candidates. Also, Baqir Solagh, the former interior minister and a leader in the Islamic Supreme Council, is participating in the elections through a new party, the Injaz Movement, and has 28 candidates.[/size]
[size=45]As for Muhammad Al-Daraji, the former Minister of Reconstruction, he is running in the elections through his Professionals for Reconstruction Party, for the second time, as he was allied in 2018 with the Al-Fateh Alliance.[/size]
[size=45]According to some leaks, Al-Daraji was intending to run in the elections through an alliance called “Solutions” headed by the current Sports Minister, Adnan Darjal. However, the name of the last coalition is not on the lists of coalitions in the commission, while men remain among the professional party candidates for Baghdad.[/size]
[size=45]defectors[/size]
[size=45]Among the new parties headed by dissidents from well-known currents is the awareness movement, affiliated with the former leader of the wisdom movement, Salah al-Arbawi.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Arbawi is considered the second leader in al-Hikma to defect from the current and run away from it, after Abdul-Hussein Abtan.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Arbawi presents a group of young people and raises the slogan “Galilean displacement.” The number of candidates is 22.[/size]
[size=45]Following in the footsteps of al-Arbawi, Muhammad al-Hindawi, a former deputy from State of Law, defected to run for the elections in a new movement called the “Al-Nour Movement.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hindawi, who is the second person after Muhammad Shia Al-Sudani, who is running in the elections away from the rule of law, submitted 20 candidates, including his daughter Zahra Al-Hendawi from Karbala.[/size]
[size=45]Women-led parties[/size]
[size=45]As for the third person who participates in the elections outside the rule of law, is the former deputy, Basma Al-Saadi, who heads the Al-Yaqin Party, represented by 16 candidates.[/size]
[size=45]And in 2020, Deputy Speaker of Parliament Hassan Al-Kaabi called on the House of Representatives to file a lawsuit against Al-Saadi for “impersonating a deputy” after she left Parliament.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Saadi is the second woman to lead a party that will participate in the upcoming legislative elections, after MP Zahra Al-Bajari, who leads the National Movement of My Country.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Bajari is the third figure to split from the Wisdom Movement, through which it won the 2018 elections in Basra.[/size]
[size=45]After that, Al-Bajari merged with the Al-Fateh Alliance, and 14 candidates came forward in her party, 6 of them in Basra.[/size]
[size=45]Several parties bear names that herald a phase of change and reform, such as the Hasm Movement for Reform and its General Secretary, Representative Thabet al-Absi, representative of Nineveh. Hasm, which is competing within the borders of Nineveh Governorate, presented ten candidates, including the current representative of Nineveh, Ahmed al-Jubouri.[/size]
[size=45]The National Correction Party and its Secretary General is the former MP Kamel al-Dulaimi (a representative from Anbar), and the party has 20 candidates.[/size]
[size=45]And they are coming to change, which was established this year, headed by businessman Hussein Al-Ramahi, and the party presents a large group of 182 candidates.[/size]
[size=45]In terms of the number of its candidates, the party outperformed the Sadrist movement, which returned to the elections recently after the boycott was announced.[/size]
[size=45]The current, which is running in the elections under the name of the Sadrist bloc, submitted 95 candidates, which is about half the number of candidates for the Ramahi party.[/size]
[size=45]economy and education[/size]
[size=45]At the level of economy and business, two obscure parties bearing names derived from the economy, namely, the Economists Party and the National Product, are contesting the elections. The latter party was founded last April, with the support of a group of industrialists, economists and businessmen, and is headed by Jassem Al-Amiri.[/size]
[size=45]The producer's party aims to restore life to the stalled factories and support the national product at the expense of the importer. The party presents 20 candidates.[/size]
[size=45]It was also remarkable that one of the new parties participating in the elections bears the name “Educators’ Party”, and it includes a group of educators. The party is headed by Muhammad Jawad al-Moussawi, and the most important goals of the assembly is to reform the educational process in the country, and it has 10 candidates.[/size]
[size=45]loyalty[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, Kata'ib Hezbollah is participating for the first time in the elections through the Rights Movement, a new party headed by Hussein Mu'nis, a candidate from Baghdad.[/size]
[size=45]A rights movement held its general conference a month ago, and it is believed that Mounis is the same Abu Ali al-Askari, the author of the famous tweets on “Twitter” against Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi.[/size]
[size=45]Most of the movement's candidates are former members of the battalions, and the party's total number of candidates is 40.[/size]
[size=45]The Imam Ali Brigades are also participating in the elections under the name of the Iraq National Movement. The movement is headed by Muhammad Shaker al-Shammari, the public relations official in the battalions affiliated with the crowd, and the movement presents 24 candidates.[/size]
[size=45]MP Ahmed Al-Asadi also leads the National Bond Gathering. Al-Asadi is in charge of the Jund al-Imam Brigades affiliated with the Hashd, and the assembly presents one candidate, the jihadi assistant of the Brigades of Sayyid al-Shuhada, MP Faleh Khazali.[/size]
[size=45]It is noteworthy that the Al-Sanad grouping also appears within the Al-Fateh coalition led by the head of the Badr Organization Hadi Al-Amiri, according to leaked documents about the coalitions participating in the upcoming elections. In addition, Abu Ali al-Daraji (he has no explicit name) leads the Challenge Movement, and al-Daraji is the leader of the Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Brigade, one of the armed factions. The movement presents 6 candidates.[/size]
[size=45]A new movement is also emerging under the name of the Islamic Walayat Movement, led by Ammar al-Moussawi, who adopts the discourse of the forces of the crowd.[/size]
[size=45]The current has only two candidates. On the other hand, Youssef Al-Sanawi participates in the elections through his party, "Thar Allah Islamic Party" in Basra, and the party presents 3 candidates.[/size]
[size=45]October forces[/size]
[size=45]In the meantime, 3 parties bear names derived from the Tishreen protests, the most prominent of which is the “Nazl I Take My Right” movement headed by Mashreq Al-Fariji, which presents 19 candidates, and the extension movement headed by Alaa Al-Rikabi, a well-known activist in Nasiriyah. The movement presents 38 candidates, and the third is the Tishreen National Gathering, headed by Iyad Al-Fatlawi. .[/size]
[size=45]Not absent from the elections were the parties that participated in the past electoral cycles, such as Iraq United, affiliated to former Parliament Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi, and the pool of competencies of Representative Haitham al-Jubouri.[/size]
[size=45]In addition to the Enough Movement, headed by former MP Rahim Al-Daraji, Bayariq Al-Khair by MP Muhammad Al-Khalidi, and the Republican Gathering of Saad Assem Al-Janabi, who recently announced a boycott of the elections.[/size]
[size=45]Component parties[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Masoud Barzani is running in the elections alone, presenting 48 candidates.[/size]
[size=45]Several Kurdish parties outside the alliances compete with him, including the Kurdistan Toilers Party, the New Generation Movement, the Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party, and the Kurdistan Justice Group. As for the Turkmen, they are represented by one party outside the alliances, which is the Iraqi Turkmen Square, and it presents 3 candidates, two of them in Kirkuk.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, there are 5 Christian parties competing in the elections: the Assyrian Democratic Movement, the Chaldean People's Assembly, the Babylonian Movement, the Beth Nahrain Union, and the Assyrian National Party.[/size]
[size=45]The Yezidis are represented by 3 parties: the Yezidi Movement for Reform, the Yezidi Democratic Party, and the Yezidi Progress Party.[/size]
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