National Iraqi Alliance

National Iraqi Alliance
الائتلاف الوطني العراقي
LeaderAmmar al-Hakim
Founded2005 (2005)
IdeologyShia Islamism
Pro-Iran

The National Iraqi Alliance (NIA or INA; Arabic: الائتلاف الوطني العراقي, romanizedAl-I’tilāf al-Waṭanī al-‘Irāqī), also known as the Watani List, is an Iraqi electoral coalition that contested the 2010 Iraqi legislative election. The Alliance is mainly composed of Shi'a Islamist parties. The alliance was created by the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (the at the time largest Shi'a party) to contest in the January 2005 and December 2005 under the name United Iraqi Alliance (UIA; Arabic: الائتلاف العراقي الموحد, romanizedAl-I’tilāf al-‘Irāqı al-Muwaḥḥad), when it included all Iraq's major Shi'a parties. The United Iraqi Alliance won both those of elections however later fell apart after several major parties (most notably the Sadr Movement) left the alliance due to disputes with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the Supreme Council.[1]

The component parties contested the 2009 provincial elections separately but later that year started negotiations to revive the list. In August 2009 they announced the creation of the National Iraqi Alliance for the 2010 parliamentary election, this time without Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Islamic Dawa Party, which formed the State of Law Coalition.[2] Later that year the two lists would re-unite again, forming the National Alliance.[3]

  1. ^ "Iraqi National Alliance." Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 2010. Web. 1 June 2010. "Iraqi National Alliance - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace". Archived from the original on 13 January 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2010.
  2. ^ Shiite Fundamentalist Coalition Announced Al-Maliki Might Not win Second Term, Informed Comment quoting Al-Zaman, 25 August 2009
  3. ^ "Iraq's Leading Shi'ite Blocs Agree To Form Parliamentary Coalition". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty.