{{Refimprove|date=March 2007}} {{Politics of Iraq}} The '''Popular Unity Party''' was a [[political party]] in [[Iraq]] led by Youssif Hamdan. It was founded in 1995 and was initially known as the '''Communist Party of Iraq''' ('''CPI'''). The CPI split away from the [[Iraqi Communist Party]] during the latter period of [[Saddam Hussein]]'s [[Ba'athist Iraq|regime]]. Many saw the CPI as a puppet party of the regime, whose existence would give the outside world an impression that the country was a multi-party state. The party met with foreign delegations visiting [[Iraq]]. It seemed the intentions of the party would have been to join the government as a junior partner within the [[National Progressive Front (Iraq)|National Progressive Front]], similar to the [[National Progressive Front (Syria)|coalition of the same name]] set-up in neighbouring [[Syria]], but the idea was later discarded. The CPI was never given possibility to register as a legal party, though its leader was in the Iraqi parliament as of 2001.<ref>''Jewish Political Studies Review'' Vol. 13. 2001. p. 234.</ref>
Following the [[2003 invasion of Iraq|fall of the Saddam's regime in 2003]], the party was reconstructed as the Popular Unity Party.
==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:1995 establishments in Iraq]] [[Category:Ba'athist Iraq]] [[Category:Communist parties in Iraq]] [[Category:Iraqi Communist Party breakaway groups]] [[Category:Political parties established in 1995]] {{CP-stub}} {{Iraq-party-stub}}