The National White Bloc ( Arabic : الكتلة الوطنیة البیضاء ), formerly known as the Iraqi National Movement Party or the White Iraqiya , is an Iraqi political party.
6-592: The White Bloc emerged from the political infighting of the Iraqi National Movement , with the group's 8 MPs leaving in early March 2011 in order to set up the White Bloc. The major disagreement between the White Bloc and the Iraqi National Movement were over the perceived growing sectarian nature of the Iraqi National Movement and also over disagreements with Ayad Allawi's leadership. The White Bloc
12-518: The White Iraqiya Bloc . Following the formation of the White Bloc, another 20 members of the Iraqi National Movement announced the formation of a new party within the list, under the name Youth of Iraq , headed by Talal Zobaie . In April 2011, a further 5 MPs left the list in order to found the Free Iraqiya party. The reasons for the many splits within the list were numerous, but some of
18-643: The al-Iraqiya List , was an Iraqi political coalition formed to contest the 2010 parliamentary election by Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi 's Renewal List , the Iraqi National Accord led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and the Iraqi National Dialogue Front led by Saleh al-Mutlaq . The party included both Shi'a leaders (such as Allawi) and Sunni leaders (such as al-Mutlaq and al-Hashimi) and claimed to be secular and non-sectarian. With 2,849,612 votes (24.7%) and 91 seats
24-482: The Iraqiya List became the biggest list in the elections, winning two seats more than Nouri al-Maliki 's State of Law Coalition , which won 89 seats and 2,792,083 votes (24.2%). In the 2010 parliamentary election the coalition consisted of the following parties: Following the election the party was beset by political infighting in the post election period, with 8 MPs leaving in early March 2011 in order to set up
30-411: The most often cited reasons were that a handful of list members had monopolised power and ignore the thousands of party members, a problem that is exacerbated by the fact that the party has no clear ideology or policies. These rifts have led to possible discussions between State of Law leader Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki , and Saleh al-Mutlaq and Usama al-Nujayfi , of forming an electoral alliance for
36-922: Was in talks to unite with other parties that have splintered from the Iraqi National Movement in order to try and found a new list known as the National Resolution Trend . For the 2013 governorate elections the White Bloc ran as part of the State of Law Coalition . At its second 2nd Constitutional Conference the party voted to change its name from the White Iraqiya Bloc to the White Bloc . Qutaibah al-Jabouri Jamal al-Bateikh Aliya Nassif Kadhim al-Shummari Aziz al-Mayyahi Ahmed al-Oraibi Iraqi National Movement The Iraqi National Movement (INM) ( Arabic : الحركة الوطنية العراقية al-Ḥaraka al-Waṭaniya al-Iraqiyya ), more commonly known as
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