Chaldean Democratic Party

Chaldean Democratic Union Party
Chaldean Democratic Union Party
Leader	Ablahad Afraim Sawa
Ideology	Chaldean national identity; Conservatism; Christian democracy
Political position	Centre-right
Religion	Christianity
Colours	Baby blue
Seats in the local governorate councils:	1 / 440
Website
	www.chaldeanparty.com
	Politics of Iraq; Political parties; Elections;

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 2009 Basra governorate election.

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v t e Political parties in Iraq
Major political parties	Sadrists (73) Progress Party (37) State of Law Coalition (33) Islamic Dawa Party Islamic Dawa Party – Iraq Organisation Kurdistan Democratic Party (31) Fatah Alliance (17) Badr Organization Al-Sadiqoun Bloc Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (17) Azem Alliance (14)
Minor political parties	Emtidad Movement (9) New Generation Movement (9) Ishraqat Kanoon (6) Tasmim Alliance (5) Victory Alliance (4) Kurdistan Justice Group (2) Iraqi Turkmen Front (1)
Reserved Christian seats (5)	Babylon Movement (4) Athra Alliance (1) Assyrian Democratic Movement Assyrian Patriotic Party Beth Nahrin Patriotic Union Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council Sons of Mesopotamia
Reserved minority seats (3)	Hareth Shanshal Sunaid (1) [Mandaean seat] Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress (1) [Yazidi seat] Council of Free Shabaks (1) [Shabak seat]
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