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Just days before the new year, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announced that the Council of Ministers (CoM) decreed that Yazidis in Sinjar – a district in Ninewa province nearly decimated in the brutal ISIS occupation and subsequent liberation – would be granted full ownership of their homes.

A change to the Sainte-Laguë representation system will significantly hinder the ability of smaller parties and independent candidates to win seats in Iraq’s next elections.

Combining a wide range of of political views and principles, the Democratic Forces of Change hope to provide the Iraqi people with an action-driven opposition platform.

Time and again, the professional institutions and legal protections allegedly afforded to Iraqi journalists are failing them.

On October 10, a new generation of Iraqi voters, who have lived their entire lives in a fledgling democracy rife with bureaucracy and corruption underpinned by sectarian patronage networks, could have their say in who governs them.

Calls to reject the results of Iraq’s October 10 parliamentary election by the Fateh alliance and other parties affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces that underperformed have garnered much attention. Yet the successful strategies and ideologies of relatively new parties that took seats in the recent election cycle deserve a closer look.