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National Reform Trend (also known as the National Reform Movement or as Islah ) (Arabic: تيار الإصلاح الوطني) is an Iraqi political party that was founded in 2008 by former Prime Minister of Iraq , Ibrahim al-Jaafari . It is a Shiite - Islamic based party. Jaafari was the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party when he was elected Prime Minister. Following the Iraqi legislative election, December 2005 , his reelection as Prime Minister was blocked by Kurdish and Sunni Arab coalition partners.1 Nouri al-Maliki , also from the Islamic Dawa Party, was elected as a compromise candidate in his place, and Maliki replaced Jaafari as party secretary general in May 2007. The party won several seats in the Iraqi governorate elections, 2009 becoming the fourth largest Shi'a faction. They however only managed to win one seat and that was the seat of Jaafari himself, who got over 100,000 votes.2
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Political party in Iraq The National Reform Trend (also known as the National Reform Movement or as Islah ) (Arabic: تيار الإصلاح الوطني) is an Iraqi political party that was founded in 2008 by former Prime Minister of Iraq , Ibrahim al-Jaafari . It is a Shiite - Islamic -based party. Jaafari was the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party when he was elected Prime Minister. Following the Iraqi legislative election, December 2005 , his reelection as Prime Minister was blocked by Kurdish and Sunni Arab coalition partners. Nouri al-Maliki , also from the Islamic Dawa Party, was elected as a compromise candidate in his place, and Maliki replaced Jaafari as party secretary general in May 2007.
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Political party in Iraq The National Reform Trend (also known as the National Reform Movement or as Islah ) (Arabic: تيار الإصلاح الوطني) is an Iraqi political party that was founded in 2008 by former Prime Minister of Iraq , Ibrahim al-Jaafari . It is a Shiite - Islamic -based party. Jaafari was the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party when he was elected Prime Minister. Following the December 2005 Iraqi legislative election , his reelection as Prime Minister was blocked by Kurdish and Sunni Arab coalition partners. Nouri al-Maliki , also from the Islamic Dawa Party, was elected as a compromise candidate in his place, and Maliki replaced Jaafari as party secretary general in May 2007.
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Political party in Iraq The National Reform Trend , also known as the National Reform Movement or as Islah ( ), is an Iraqi political party that was founded in 2008 by former Iraqi prime minister , Ibrahim al-Jaafari . It is a Shiite - Islamic -based party. Jaafari was the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party when he was elected Prime Minister. Following the December 2005 Iraqi legislative election , his reelection as Prime Minister was blocked by Kurdish and Sunni Arab coalition partners. Nouri al-Maliki , also from the Islamic Dawa Party, was elected as a compromise candidate in his place, and Maliki replaced Jaafari as party secretary general in May 2007.
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Political party in Iraq The National Reform Trend , also known as the National Reform Movement or as Islah ( Arabic : تيار الإصلاح الوطني ), is an Iraqi political party that was founded in 2008 by former Iraqi prime minister , Ibrahim al-Jaafari . It is a Shiite - Islamic -based party. Jaafari was the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party when he was elected Prime Minister. Following the December 2005 Iraqi legislative election , his reelection as Prime Minister was blocked by Kurdish and Sunni Arab coalition partners. Nouri al-Maliki , also from the Islamic Dawa Party, was elected as a compromise candidate in his place, and Maliki replaced Jaafari as party secretary general in May 2007.
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iraqi political party that was founded in 2008 by former prime minister of iraq
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iraqi political party that was founded in 2008 by former iraqi prime minister
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