The Democratic Centrist Tendency was an Iraqi political party founded in 2000 in

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by Iraqi exiles who were opposed to the rule of

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. The group publishes the newspaper ''Al-Nahdah''.Independent Iraqi Democrats/Democratic Centrist Tendency

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, accessed on 2007-01-20

Supporters

The founder members included: * Secretary-General:

Adnan Pachachi Adnan Muzahim Ameen al-Pachachi () (14 May 1923 – 17 November 2019), better known as Adnan Pachachi, was an Iraqi politician and statesman who served as Iraq's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1959–1965 and 1967–1969) and Min ...

, Foreign Minister and UN Ambassador under the 1960s

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government of

Abdul Salam Arif Abdul Salam Mohammed ʿArif Al-Jumaili ('; 21 March 1921 – 13 April 1966) was an Iraqi military officer and politician who served as the second president of Iraq from 1963 until his death in a plane crash in 1966. He played a leading role in ...

* Deputy Secretary-General: Mahdi al-Hafez, foreign service officer at the UN in Geneva under

during the 1970s who became Minister of Planning under the

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* Executive Committee Member:

Maysoon al-Damluji Maysoon Salem Al-Damluji (); born 1962) first name also spelt Maysun, is a liberal Iraqi politician and women's rights campaigner. She was Iraq's deputy minister of culture from June 2004 until March 2006 and is a member of the Council of Repres ...

, Senior Deputy Culture Minister in the Iraqi Governing Council, later Member of Parliament * Executive Committee Member: Ayham al-Samarie, who became Minister of Electricity in the

* Executive Committee Member:

Feisal al-Istrabadi Feisal Amin al-Istrabadi (; born 1962) is an Iraqi lawyer and former diplomat who represented Iraq at the United Nations as ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative from 2004 to 2007. In 2004, he was one of the main drafters of Iraq's Tr ...

, legal drafter of the Transitional Administrative Law, appointed Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Iraq to the UN * Hussein Ali al-Shaalan

History

It participated in the

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in the lead up to the 2003

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. In the 2005 National Assembly legislative election it was part of the Assembly of Independent Democrats, led by Pachachi himself, and was disbanded after the December 2005 elections.

References

2000 establishments in Iraq Defunct political parties in Iraq Iraqi democracy movements Political parties established in 2000 Political parties with year of disestablishment missing {{Iraq-party-stub