Kurdistan Democratic Party
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (Kurdish: پارتی دیموکراتی کوردستان, romanized: Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistanê), usually abbreviated as KDP or PDK, is the largest party in Iraqi Kurdistan and the senior partner in the Kurdistan Regional Government. It was founded in 1946 in Mahabad in Iranian Kurdistan. The party states that it combines "democratic values and social justice to form a system whereby everyone in Kurdistan can live on an equal basis with great emphasis given to rights of individuals and freedom of expression."
Kurdistan Democratic Party پارتی دیموکراتی کوردستان Partiya Demokrat a Kurdistanê | |
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| President | Masoud Barzani |
| Founder | Mustafa Barzani |
| Founded | 16 August 1946 |
| Headquarters | Pirmam, Kurdistan Region, Iraq |
| Ideology | Kurdish nationalism Republicanism Conservatism Secularism Atlanticism |
| Political position | Big tent |
| Colours | Yellow |
| Council of Representatives of Iraq | 31 / 329 |
| Kurdistan Region Parliament | 45 / 111 |
| Party flag | |
| Website | |
| kdp.info | |
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The KDP is dominated by the Barzani tribe and the party's stated ideologies are lawfulness, secularism, and Kurdish nationalism. It wants to build a "social-oriented" economy, and lists civil solidarity and social justice as the basis of its ideology.