Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council

Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council
Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council
ܡܘܬܒܐ ܥܡܡܝܐ ܟܠܕܝܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܐ
المجلس الشعبي الكلداني السرياني الاشوري
Leader Sarkis Aghajan
Jamil Zayto
Founded March 12, 2007
Headquarters Ankawa, Iraq
Ideology Assyrian nationalism, Conservatism, Neoconservatism, Christian democracy
Political position Centre-right
Seats in the Kurdistan Parliament:
3 / 111
Politics of Iraq
Political parties
Elections

Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council is a political party in Iraq that was founded by Sarkis Aghajan, a high ranking KDP, in 2007.[1] The Party runs Ishtar TV and publishes several different monthly magazines.

In the local January elections of 2009, the party was part of a coalition that won the Assyrian reserved seat in Baghdad and Ninawa.

The party's main goal is to have the heavily Assyrian populated Nineveh plains receive self-administrative government or outright autonomy. The party claims the majority of the population in the Nineveh plains suffers neglect and lack of service because of their Christian faith.[2]

The party is closely affiliated with Massoud Barzani's KDP and was accused in previous elections of intimidating and bribing Christians. The bribes included promises of employment and reductions in rents at Aghajan-owned apartments.[3] This was confirmed by an investigation led by UNPO and Assyria Council of Europe in the January 2009 elections.[4][5]

On July 25, 2009, the party ran for the first time on its own for the 111-member Kurdistan National Assembly (see Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election, 2009). It received over 10,000 votes and won 3 of the 5 reserved Assyrian seats.

Platform

There are two main issues that the party has based itself on. The first is to establish "self-government" in the Assyrian-inhabited areas of northern Iraq.[6] The area generally includes the Nineveh plains, which compromises the three district of Tel Keppe, Bakhdida, and Al-Shikhan. The second issue the party bases itself on is to have the three different Assyrian sub-sects all united as under one name in the constitution of Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan region.[6]

External links

References

  1. ^ Overview of Assyrian slates running in the 2009 elections, Fred Aprim
  2. ^ المجلس الشعبي الكلداني السرياني الآشوري يطالب بإقامة حكم ذاتي في منطقة سهل نينوى, Iraq Alaan, 8/28/2008 [1]
  3. ^ [2]
  4. ^ Preliminary Report: Iraqi Provincial Elections, 12 February 2009, UNPO [3]
  5. ^ [4]
  6. ^ a b [5]

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