National Reform Trend

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Political party in Iraq

National Reform Trend (Islah)

تيار الإصلاح الوطني

Leader| Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Founder| Ibrahim al-Jaafari
Founded| May 2008
Headquarters| Baghdad, Iraq
Ideology| Islamism
Religion| Shia Islam
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The National Reform Trend, also known as the National Reform Movement or as Islah (Arabic: تيار الإصلاح الوطني), is an Iraqi political party that was founded in 2008 by former Iraqi prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari.[1] It is a Shiite-Islamic-based party.

Jaafari was the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party when he was elected Prime Minister. Following the December 2005 Iraqi legislative election, his reelection as Prime Minister was blocked by Kurdish and Sunni Arab coalition partners. Nouri al-Maliki, also from the Islamic Dawa Party, was elected as a compromise candidate in his place, and Maliki replaced Jaafari as party secretary general in May 2007.[2]

## Iraqi governorate elections, 2009

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The party won several seats in the 2009 Iraqi governorate elections becoming the fourth largest Shi'a faction.

Governorate | seats won | out of

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Baghdad Governorate | 2 | 55
Babil Governorate | 2 | 30
Basra Governorate | 1 | 34
Diyala Governorate | 1 | 29
Dhi Qar Governorate | 4 | 31
Karbala Governorate | 1 | 27
al-Qadisiyyah Governorate | 3 | 28
Maysan Governorate | 4 | 27
Muthanna Governorate | 3 | 26
Najaf Governorate | 3 | 28
Wasit Governorate | 1 | 28

## Parliamentary elections 2010

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For the 2010 Iraqi parliamentary elections they joined up with other Shi'a religious parties to form the National Iraqi Alliance, Jaafari was placed prominently as number one on their list for Baghdad and was made chairman of the alliance. They however only managed to win one seat and that was the seat of Jaafari himself, who got over 100,000 votes.

## Parliamentary elections 2014

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National Reform Trend took part in the 2014 Iraqi parliamentary election as a coalition under the banner of Tayyar al islah and headed by Ibrahim al-Jaafari winning 6 seats in the Iraqi Parliament out of a total of 327 seats.

## See also

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* List of Islamic political parties

## References

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1. ^ Ex-Premier Is Expelled From Governing Party in Iraq, The New York Times, June 8, 2008
2. ^ Sawt al-Iraq, writing in Arabic, Informed Comment, May 14, 2007

## External links

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* http://www.al-jaffaary.net/

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Political parties in Iraq

Major political parties|

* Sadrists (73) (quit)
* Progress Party (37)
* State of Law Coalition (33)
* Islamic Dawa Party
* Islamic Dawa Party – Iraq Organisation
* Kurdistan Democratic Party (31)
* Fatah Alliance (17)
* Badr Organization
* Al-Sadiqoun Bloc
* Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq
* Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (17)
* Azem Alliance (14)

Minor political parties|

* Emtidad Movement (9)
* New Generation Movement (9)
* Ishraqat Kanoon (6)
* Tasmim Alliance (5)
* Victory Alliance (4)
* Kurdistan Justice Group (2)
* Iraqi Turkmen Front (1)

Reserved Christian seats (5)|

* Babylon Movement (4)
* Independents (1)

Reserved minority seats (3)|

* Hareth Shanshal Sunaid (1) [Mandaean seat]
* Naif Khalaf Seydou (1) [Yazidi seat]
* Council of Free Shabaks (1) [Shabak seat]

Unrepresented in parliament|

* The Iraqis
* Iraqi Communist Party
* Iraqi National Congress
* National Wisdom Movement

Banned|

* Hizb ut-Tahrir
* Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
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* pan-Arab organization
* al-Awda
* Arab Liberation Front

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