Country: | Iraq |
Chaldean Democratic Union Party | |
Colorcode: | lightblue |
Leader: | Ablahad Afraim Sawa |
Position: | Centre-right |
Religion: | Christianity |
Colours: | Baby blue |
Seats3 Title: | Seats in the local governorate councils: |
The Chaldean Democratic Union is a Christian democrat political party in Iraq and within Iraqi Kurdistan a component of the Kurdistani Alliance, designed to promote the Chaldean ethnicity and heritage. 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.