Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan

The Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan (DPAK) sometimes referred to simply as the Kurdistan Alliance (KA) is the name of the electoral coalition first presented as a united Kurdish list in the January 2005 election in Iraq.[1] Elections were held simultaneously for the assembly of Kurdistan Region. The Alliance represents a coalition of the two main Kurdish parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan
Founded2005 (2005)
Dissolved2009
Succeeded byKurdistan List
IdeologyKurdish nationalism

The alliance received 1,570,665 votes to the Kurdistan National Assembly, or 90% of the vote.[2] At the federal level, the DPAK took close to 26% of the vote and won 75 seats out of 275 in the Iraqi National Assembly. They were able to secure the selection of Jalal Talabani (the PUK leader) as President of Iraq, while Massoud Barzani (KDP leader) became President of Kurdistan Region.

References
  1. Lansford, Tom (2021-05-31). Political Handbook of the World 2020-2021. CQ Press. p. 1984. ISBN 978-1-5443-8473-3.
  2. Phillips, David L. (2018-11-29). The Great Betrayal: How America Abandoned the Kurds and Lost the Middle East. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 69. ISBN 978-1-78673-576-8.

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