Al-Ahrar Bloc
The Al-Ahrar Bloc (Arabic: كتلة الأحرار, romanized: Kotlat Al-Ahrar or Liberal Bloc) is an Iraqi Shia Islamist political coalition formed for the 2014 Iraqi parliamentary election. It is headed by Dia Najem Abdallah al-Asadi.
Al-Ahrar Bloc كتلة الأحرار | |
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| Leader | Dia al-Asadi (Political leader) Muqtada al-Sadr (Spiritual leader) until 2016. |
| Headquarters | Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Ideology | Reformism Populism Islamism |
| Religion | Shia Islam |
| Seats in the Council of Representatives of Iraq | 0 / 329 |
| Seats in the Governorate Councils: | 0 / 440 |
| Governors: | 0 / 18 |
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The mainly Shia movement having the support of religious leader Muqtada al-Sadr strongly opposed a third term form Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shia himself, in forming an Iraqi government and said it would not partake in a government by the latter whose State of Law Coalition had won the biggest number of seats in the new parliament. Al-Ahrar states prominently in its party platform that it wants to fight corruption which it says is rampant in al-Maliki-run government.
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