The Iraqi Accord Front or Iraqi Accordance Front (

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: جبهة التوافق العراقية ''Jabhet Al-Tawafuq Al-'Iraqiyah'') also known as Tawafuq is an

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

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political coalition created on October 26, 2005 by the

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to contest the December 2005 general election. As a large section of Iraq's Sunnis are composed by the populous

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, situated in northern Iraq and locally autonomous, the party's members are mostly

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, and as such, its political efforts have largely been focused on protecting this community's interests as opposed to Iraq's non-Sunni population. In the 2005 election, its platform called for ending the US

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, revision of the new Iraqi constitution, repeal of the

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laws that had cost many Sunnis their government jobs and the restoration of the Iraqi Army, which was dissolved after the US overthrow of

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and which had a Sunni dominated officer corps. Despite this, the party has maintained that it is non-secular, even though the

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contained many prominent Sunnis.

Leadership

The Accordance Front was initially led by

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of the General Council for the People of Iraq.

Ayad al-Samarrai Ayad al-Samarrai ( ar, إياد السامرائي; born 1946) is a Sunni Arab Iraqi politician, who was the chairman of the Iraqi Accord Front parliamentary group, and since July 2011 is the Secretary-General of the Iraqi Islamic Party. He was ...

replaced Adnan al-Dulaimi as leader in July 2007. In May 2009

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a member of the Accordance Front was injured in the

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. The Accordance Front withdrew from Nouri al-Maliki's

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in August 2007 but rejoined in April 2008. In December 2008 the

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withdrew from the Accordance Front.

December 2005 Parliamentary Election

In the December 2005 parliamentary election the Accordance Front consisted of: *

– led by

Tariq al-Hashimi Tariq al-Hashimi ( ar, طَارِق الْهَاشِمِي, Târık el-Hâşimî; born 1942) is an Iraqi politician who served as the general secretary of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) until May 2009. He served as the Vice President of Iraq fro ...

* General Council for the People of Iraq – led by

and *

– led by

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Results

The Accordance Front received 15.1% of the vote and 44 out of 275 seats, coming third overall to the

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and the

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March 2010 Parliamentary Election

Prior to the

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, a number of components left the Front to join other political coalitions. In particular: * Vice President

Tariq al-Hashemi Tariq al-Hashimi ( ar, طَارِق الْهَاشِمِي, Târık el-Hâşimî; born 1942) is an Iraqi politician who served as the general secretary of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) until May 2009. He served as the Vice President of Iraq fro ...

formed the Renewal List (Tajdeed), which joined the secular

Iraqiyya The Iraqi National Movement (INM) (Arabic: الحركة الوطنية العراقية ''al-Ḥaraka al-Waṭaniya al-Iraqiyya''), more commonly known as the al-Iraqiya List, was an Iraqi political coalition formed to contest the 2010 parliament ...

coalition * Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Rafi al-Issawi formed the National Future Gathering which also joined Iraqiyya *

joined the Unity Alliance of Iraq The remaining Front parties were: *

– now led by Osama Tawfiq al-Tikriti * General Council for the People of Iraq – led by Khaled al-Baraa after

was banned * Turkmen Justice Party – led by Hassan Tawran * Independent candidates, including Taiseer Mashhadani, Salim Jabbouri and Mutshar Aliawi

Results

Tawafuq's overall performance was disappointing as they dropped from Iraq's third biggest list, in 2005 with 1,840,216 (14.85%) votes to Iraq's seventh list in 2010, with 298,226 (2.59%) and from 44 (out of 275) seats in 2005 to a mere 6 (out of 325) seats in 2010. They remained the second largest list in Sunni Arab areas, after

Ayad Allawi Ayad Allawi ( ar, إيَاد عَلَّاوِي ; born 31 May 1944) is an Iraqi politician. He served as the vice president of Iraq from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. Previously he was interim prime minister of Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and the ...

's secular al-Iraqiyya List.

References

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