The Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan is the name of the electoral coalition first presented as a united Kurdish list in the January 2005 election in Iraq. Elections were held simultaneously 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. The Kurds (in Kurdish: Kurd) are an Iranian people (a classification that is more linguistic than ethnic in the case of some Kurds) inhabiting a mountainous area of Southwest Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Turkey, and Iran as well as smaller sections of Syria, Armenia and Lebanon. ... Iraqi police officers hold up their index fingers marked with purple indelible ink, a security measure to prevent double voting. ... The Kurdish Autonomous Region (Başûrê Kurdistanê in Kurdish) is a political entity established in 1970 following the agreement of an Autonomy Accord between the government of Iraq and leaders of the Iraqi Kurdish community. ... The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is a Kurdish political party led by Massoud Barzani. ... The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) (est 1975) (Kurdish: Yaketi Nishtimani Kurdistan) // Mission The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan has been working for self-determination, human rights, democracy and peace for the Kurdish people of Iraq, since its establishment in 1 June 1975. ...

• Kurdish Democratic Party
• Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
• Kurdistan Islamic Union
• Kurdistan Communist Party
• Kurdistan Democratic Socialist Party
• Kurdistan Democratic National Party
• Democratic Baith-Nahrain Party
• Assyrian Patriotic Party or Assyrian National Party
• Chaldean Democratic United Party
• Kurdistan Toilers’ Party
• several smaller parties including at least one Turkoman party

The alliance received 1,570,663 votes to the Kurdistan National Assembly, or 90% of the vote. At the federal level, the DPAK took close to 26% of the vote and won 75 seats out of 275 in the Iraqi National Assembly. They were able to secure the selection of Jalal Talabani (the PUK leader) as President of Iraq, while Massoud Barzani (the KDP leader) became President of Iraqi Kurdistan. The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is a Kurdish political party led by Massoud Barzani. ... The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) (est 1975) (Kurdish: Yaketi Nishtimani Kurdistan) // Mission The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan has been working for self-determination, human rights, democracy and peace for the Kurdish people of Iraq, since its establishment in 1 June 1975. ... Kurdistan Islamic Union (Arabic: مالَثةرِي حزبي يةكطرتووي كوردستان / عيَراق Kurdish: Yekîtiya Islamiya Kurdistan) is a party of the Muslim Brotherhood. ... Kurdistan Communist Party (Kurdish: Partiya Komunîst Kurdistan) is a Kurdish splinter Party of the Iraqi Communist Party. ... The Assyrian Patriotic Party was established in 1973 in Baghdad. ... Kurdistan Toilers Party (Kurdish: Parti Zahmatkeshan Kurdistan) founded according to the party on 1985, a splinter from the Kurdistan Socialist Party of Iraq, and later a member of the Iraqi Kurdistan Front. ... Jalal Talabani (in Kurdish: Celal Talebanî )(in Arabic: جلال طالباني: jalâl tâlabânî) (born 1933), Iraqi politician, was named President of Iraq on April 6, 2005 by the Iraqi National Assembly. ... The President of Iraq is Iraqs head of state and chief of government. ... Massoud Barzani Massoud Barzani (born August 16, 1946) is the head of the Autonomous Kurdish Government in Iraq and leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. ...

In the Iraqi legislative election, December 2005, the Kurdistan Islamic Union (affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood) has left the DPAK to form a list of its own. There were 8 members of the Alliance in December 2005: Following the ratification of the Constitution of Iraq on October 15, 2005, a general election was called for 15 December to elect a permanent 275-member Iraqi National Assembly. ... Kurdistan Islamic Union (Arabic: مالَثةرِي حزبي يةكطرتووي كوردستان / عيَراق Kurdish: Yekîtiya Islamiya Kurdistan) is a party of the Muslim Brotherhood. ... The Muslim Brotherhood or The Muslim Brothers (Arabic: al-Ikhwan al-muslimoon, full title جماعة الإخوان المسلمين Jamaat al-ikhwan al-muslimin, The Society of the Muslim Brothers, often simply الإخوان al-Ikhwan, the Brotherhood) is the name of several Islamist organizations in the Middle East. ...

• Kurdish Democratic Party
• Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
• Islamic Group of Kurdistan
• Kurdistan Communist Party
• Kurdistan Democratic Socialist Party
• Chaldean Democration Union
• Kurdistan Toilers’ Party
• Iraqi Turkmen Brotherhood Party

The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) is a Kurdish political party led by Massoud Barzani. ... The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) (est 1975) (Kurdish: Yaketi Nishtimani Kurdistan) // Mission The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan has been working for self-determination, human rights, democracy and peace for the Kurdish people of Iraq, since its establishment in 1 June 1975. ... The Islamic Movement of Kurdistan is an Iraqi political party. ... Kurdistan Communist Party (Kurdish: Partiya Komunîst Kurdistan) is a Kurdish splinter Party of the Iraqi Communist Party. ... Kurdistan Toilers Party (Kurdish: Parti Zahmatkeshan Kurdistan) founded according to the party on 1985, a splinter from the Kurdistan Socialist Party of Iraq, and later a member of the Iraqi Kurdistan Front. ...

References

• Baathists are candidates in the PUK-KDP election list. KurdishMedia News. URL accessed on 15 January 2005.
• Iraqi Christian Campaigning Hindered by Dangers, Lack of Funding. Assyrian International News Agency. URL accessed on 15 January 2005.
• Kurdistan Alliance Election Poster. URL accessed on December, 2005.