Kurdistan List

Kurdistan List Lîstî Kurdistani ليست كوردستان
Logo for the list as used in the Kurdistan Elections in 2009
Leader	Barham Salih
Founded	2009 (2009)
Dissolved	2013
Preceded by	Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan
Ideology	Kurdish nationalism
Seats in the Council of Representatives of Iraq:	43 / 325
Seats in the Kurdistan Parliament:	59 / 111
Politics of Iraq Political parties Elections

The Kurdistan List (Kurdish: ليست كوردستان Lîstî Kurdistani‎), also known as the Kurdistan Alliance or the Brotherhood List, is the name of the electoral coalition that ran in the Kurdistan Regional Government parliamentary elections in Iraqi Kurdistan in July 2009. The Kurdistan List represented a coalition of the two main ruling parties in Iraqi Kurdistan, namely the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. It is the successor of the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan.

Iraqi Kurdistan
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National symbols Anthem Flag
Referendums Independence poll, 2005 Independence poll, 2017 Kirkuk status (planned)
Government Presidency Council President Massoud Barzani Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani
Parliament Speaker Members
Recent elections Presidential: 1992 2009 Parliamentary: 2009 2013 General: 2018
Political parties Democratic Party (KDP) Patriotic Union (PUK) Movement for Change (Gorran) Islamic Union (KIU)
Administrative divisions Silemani (Sulaymaniyah) Dohuk Hawler (Arbil) Disputed Nineveh Kirkuk Diyala
Foreign relations Diplomatic missions of Iraqi Kurdistan to Iraqi Kurdistan Iraqi–Kurdish conflict Kurdish nationalism
Other countries Atlas

The head of the Kurdistan List was the former deputy prime minister of Iraq, Dr. Barham Salih (PUK), who was later elected as the new prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan in September 2009. The Kurdistan List endorsed the incumbent and re-elected president of Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani (KDP).^[1]

2010 Iraqi elections

In the Iraqi parliamentary election, 2010 there were 11 parties in the Kurdistani List, the largest ones were the:^[2]

• Kurdistan Democratic Party - led by Kurdish President Massoud Barzani
• Patriotic Union of Kurdistan- led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani
• Kurdistan Communist Party – Iraq - led by Kamal Shakir
• Islamic Movement of Kurdistan - led by Shaykh Uthman Abd-Aziz
• Kurdistan Toilers' Party - led by Qadir Aziz
• Turkmen Brotherhood Movement - led by Kalkhi Najmaddin Noureddin
• Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party

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