Country: | Iraq |
Chaldean Democratic Party | |
Native Name: | ܓܒܐ ܕܝܡܘܩܪܛܝܐ ܟܠܕܝܐ |
Native Name Lang: | syr |
Colorcode: | lightblue |
Leader: | Ablahad Afraim Sawa |
Colours: | Baby blue |
Seats3 Title: | Seats in the local governorate councils: |
The Chaldean Democratic Party (syr|ܓܒܐ ܕܝܡܘܩܪܛܝܐ ܟܠܕܝܐ) was an Assyrian-separatist, Christian democrat political party from Iraq and within Iraqi Kurdistan. They had one member in the Iraqi National Assembly - Ablahad Afraim Sawa - who was elected in both January 2005 and December 2005. The party was created with the help of the Kurdistan Regional Government after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[1] The party won the Christian reserved seat in the 2009 Basra governorate election.