# Popular Unity Party (Iraq)

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The **Popular Unity Party** was a [political party](/source/Political_party) in [Iraq](/source/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](/source/Iraqi_Communist_Party) during the latter period of [Saddam Hussein](/source/Saddam_Hussein)'s [regime](/source/Ba'athist_Iraq). 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](/source/Iraq). It seemed the intentions of the party would have been to join the government as a junior partner within the [National Progressive Front](/source/National_Progressive_Front_(Iraq)), similar to the [coalition of the same name](/source/National_Progressive_Front_(Syria)) set-up in neighbouring [Syria](/source/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.[1]

Following the [fall of the Saddam's regime in 2003](/source/2003_invasion_of_Iraq), the party was reconstructed as the Popular Unity Party.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** *Jewish Political Studies Review* Vol. 13. 2001. p. 234.

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