Dr. Raad Sami Al-Tamimi / Senior Political Adviser / Independent High Electoral Commission
Note: The views expressed in this study are personal and do not represent the position of any official body.
Dr. Faiq Zaidan, President of the Supreme Judicial Council, published an article entitled "The Sin of the Incorrect Interpretation...
Ali Mubarak AbdulNabi / Researcher
Following 2003, Iraq witnessed a radical transformation in its political structure, accompanied by significant diversity in the forces and entities that have contested elections since 2005. Most political entities and parties have been characterized by a component-based nature that did not transcend sub-identities, being divided...
Ali Naji / Journalist specializing in economics
Oil constitutes Iraq’s most important economic resource, accounting for over 90% of the state’s general revenues and gross domestic product, and serving as the primary source for financing government budgets and infrastructure. Given this central economic role, a clear and escalating dispute has...
Dr. Abdulaziz Aliwi Al-Issawi / Academic Specialist in Electoral Affairs
The Iraqi electoral landscape is distinguished by the breadth of its electoral experience, the frequency of political surprises, and the difficulty of accurately predicting outcomes and trajectories, given the shifting variables that govern the mechanisms of alternation of power as...
Research Department
The importance of electoral public opinion polls generally lies in their ability to help understand and predict voter behavior, identify voting trends among various social segments and geographical areas, and provide valuable data to decision-makers and candidates seeking to understand voters and adjust their strategies. Polls also help...
Mustafa al-Saray / Director of Research at Al-Bayan Center for Studies and Planning
The 2025 Iraqi parliamentary elections revealed a new phase of political and social transformation in Iraq. Their preliminary results reflected notable changes in voter orientations and a broad reshaping of power balances among major political blocs, in...
Last night in New York City, something remarkable happened. Zohran Mamdani—a Ugandan-born Muslim, son of an Indian filmmaker and a Ugandan political theorist— was elected mayor of the world’s most diverse city. His victory, while geographically distant, should send a quiet tremor through political circles far beyond America’s borders,...
Hussein Abu Al-Subah / Researcher
The Iraqi political arena is preparing for a new electoral cycle that brings renewed challenges related to the participation of historically marginalized groups in the democratic process, chief among them, women and youth. Despite the passage of more than two decades since the establishment of...
Dr. Amer Hassan Fayyadh
1. Participation in Elections: A Right or a Duty?
Constitutional legal scholarship has diverged on the legal characterization of participation in elections, whether in voting or candidacy. As a result, three main orientations have emerged:
The first orientation regards elections as a personal right of every citizen, in...
Dr. Saad Salloum/ Professor of International Relations, College of Political Science, Al-Mustansiriya University.
In my intervention during the conference organized by the General Directorate of Syriac Culture in the Kurdistan Region in 2024, I drew upon Dostoevsky’s immortal novel The Brothers Karamazov to describe the relationship of Christians in Iraq...
