Chaldean Democratic Party

The Chaldean Democratic Union is a Christian democrat political party in Iraq and within Iraqi Kurdistan a component of the Kurdistani Alliance, designed to promote the Chaldean ethnicity and heritage. They had one member in the Iraqi National Assembly - Ablahad Afraim Sawa - who was elected in both January 2005 and December 2005. The party was created with the help of the Kurdistan Regional Government after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.^[1] The party won the Christian reserved seat in the Basra governorate election, 2009.

References

External links

• Official website

Assyrian political parties
Iraq	Assyrian Democratic Movement Assyrian General Conference Chaldean Democratic Party Chaldean National Congress Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council Assyrian Patriotic Party Assyrian Progressive Nationalist Party Syriac Gathering Movement
Lebanon	Syriac Union of Lebanon Shuraya Party Aramean Democratic Organization
Syria	Assyrian Democratic Organization Syriac Union Party
Others	Assyrian Universal Alliance Syriac Universal Alliance European Syriac Union Assyrian Socialist Party Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party Assyria Liberation Party
See Also	Assyrian elections in Iraq

Political parties in Iraq
National Iraqi Alliance (155)	State of Law Coalition (92) Islamic Dawa Party Sadrists (34) Al-Ahrar Bloc (28) Elite Movement (3) National Partnership Gathering (3) Al-Muwatin (29) Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (29) Al-Mehraab Martyr List Iraqi National Congress Tayyar Bada'ni
Others	Kurdistan Democratic Party (25) Muttahidoon (23) Al-Wataniya (21) Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (21) Al-Arabiya Coalition (10) Movement for Change (9) Islamic Virtue Party (6) National Reform Trend (6) Diyala is Our Identity (5) Iraq Alliance (5) Iraqi Turkmen Front (5) Kurdistan Islamic Union (4) Kurdistan Islamic Group (3) Nineveh National Alliance (3) Civil Democratic Alliance (3) Loyalty to Al-Anbar (3) Iraqi Loyalty Alliance (2) Competences and People Gathering (2) Unity of the Iraqis (2)
Single seat groups	National Alliance of Saladin National Coalition in Saladin Independent Civil Alternative Coalition Dignity Alliance Al-Sadiqoun Bloc The Equitable State Movement Ad Dawa Iraq Organization Solidarity in Iraq Alliance Salvation Alliance Arab Kirkuk Alliance
Reserved Christian seats	National Rafidain List (Assyrian Democratic Movement) (2) Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council (2) Democratic Uruk List (Iraqi Communist Party) (1)
Reserved minority seats	Hareth Shanshal Sunaid (1) [Mandaean seat] Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress (1) [Yazidi seat] Council of Free Shabaks (1) [Shabak seat]
Banned	Hizb ut-Tahrir Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq pan-Arab organization al-Awda
Unrepresented	Badr Organization
Politics of Iraq