Alliance Towards Reforms
The Alliance Towards Reforms or Marching Towards Reform (Arabic: تحالف سائرون للإصلاح), also known by its Arabic short form Saairun (Arabic: سائرون, Saairun, lit. 'Forward'), was an Iraqi electoral coalition formed to gain political control in the 2018 general election. The main components were the Shi’a Islamist Sadrist Integrity Party, the leftist Iraqi Communist Party, the Youth Movement for Change Party, the Party of Progress and Reform and the Iraqi Republican Group and the State of Justice Party. The alliance won 54 seats, more than any other coalition in the election.
Alliance Towards Reforms تحالف سائرون للإصلاح | |
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| Leader | Hassan al-Aquli (Political leader) Muqtada al-Sadr (Spiritual leader) |
| Founded | 25 January 2018 |
| Dissolved | 24 July 2021 |
| Ideology | Iraqi nationalism Anti-corruption Catch-all Factions: Social democracy Syncretic politics Shi'a political thought Communism |
| Political position | Big tent |
| Colors | Dark cyan Turquoise |
| Council of Representatives | 0 / 329
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| Seats in the Governorate Councils | 0 / 440
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| Governors | 0 / 18
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In the previous election, the Sadrists (a Shia movement emerging in the 1990s to oppose President Saddam Hussein) had run as the Al-Ahrar Bloc and won 34 seats. They initially supported the al Abadi government, with Baha al-Araji serving as one of the Deputy Prime Ministers. However, they later withdrew this stance, organizing protests against government corruption and sectarianism. On 30 April 2016, supporters of the Alliance Towards Reforms occupied the Council of Representatives in protest.
The coalition effectively ended when the Iraqi Communist Party decided to boycott the 2021 general election.