{{refimprove|date=July 2025}} {{Redirect|Al-Ahrar Bloc|the social democratic political party in Yemen|Al-Ahrar Organization}} {{Infobox political party | name = National Shiite Movement | colorcode = {{party color|Sadrist Movement}} | native_name = التيار الوطني الشيعي | native_name_lang = ar | logo = | leader = Muqtada al-Sadr | foundation = {{start date|2003}} | ideology = {{ubl|class=nowrap| |Shia Islamism<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2018/06/06/the-sadrist-communist-alliance-implications-for-iraqs-secular-politics/|title=The Sadrist–Communist Alliance: Implications for Iraq's Secular Politics|date=6 June 2018|accessdate=30 October 2019}}</ref> |Religious conservatism<ref>{{cite news|publisher=Middle East Eye|title=Iraqi Communists and Shia Sadrists unite to tackle corruption and sectarianism|url=http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sadr-communists-1162425769|date=28 February 2018}}</ref> }} | headquarters = Najaf | religion = Shia Islam | position = | wing1_title = Militia formation | wing1 = Saraya al-Salam | international = | national = Al-Ahrar Bloc {{small|(2014–2018)}}<br />Alliance Towards Reforms (Saairun) {{small|(2018–2021)}} | seats1_title = Seats in the Council of Representatives of Iraq: | seats1 = {{Composition bar|0|329|{{party color|Sadrist Movement}}}} | seats3_title = Seats in the local governorate councils: | seats3 = {{Composition bar|0|440|{{party color|Sadrist Movement}}}} | seats4_title = Governors | seats4 = {{Composition bar|0|18|{{party color|Sadrist Movement}}}} | website = {{URL|http://www.jawabna.com/}} | country = Iraq }}
The '''National Shiite Movement''' ({{langx|ar|التيار الوطني الشيعي}}), also known as the '''Sadrist Movement''' ({{langx|ar|التيار الصدري|al-Tayyār al-Sadrī}}), is an Iraqi Shia Islamic national movement and political party, led by Muqtada al-Sadr.
The Sadrist Movement ended as largest political party in the October 2021 Iraqi parliamentary election, with 73 seats in Parliament, but in June 2022, during the 2021–2022 Iraqi political crisis, Muqtada al-Sadr’s bloc resigned from parliament.<ref name=indep/>
==2009 governorate elections==
In the 2009 governorate elections, the Sadrist Movement took part as the '''Independent Free Movement List''', receiving 9.8% of the vote and winning 43 out of 440 seats, in third place behind the State of Law Coalition and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.niqash.org/content.php?contentTypeID=75&id=2395&lang=0|title=Final Provincial Election Results|access-date=19 February 2015|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012021158/http://www.niqash.org/content.php?contentTypeID=75&id=2395&lang=0|archive-date=12 October 2011}}</ref><ref>[http://www.uniraq.org/documents/ElectoralMaterial/IHEC_Preliminary%20Results_Governorate%20Council%20Elections_2009_EN.pdf Preliminary Results Governorate Elections] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326080849/http://www.uniraq.org/documents/ElectoralMaterial/IHEC_Preliminary%20Results_Governorate%20Council%20Elections_2009_EN.pdf |date=2009-03-26 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-national-alliance-and-other.html|title=MUSINGS ON IRAQ|author=Joel Wing|date=24 August 2009|access-date=19 February 2015}}</ref>
{|class=wikitable style="border:1px solid #8888aa; background-color:#f8f8f8; padding:0px; font-size:90%;" |- !Governorate !Percentage !Seats won !Total seats |- |Anbar||-||0||29 |- |Babil||6.2%||3||30 |- |Baghdad||9%||5 ||57 |- |Basra||5%||3 ||35 |- |Dhi Qar||14.1%||7||31 |- |Diyala||3.1%||0||29 |- |Karbala||6.8%||4 ||27 |- |Maysan||14.6%||7 ||27 |- |Muthanna||5.5%||2 ||26 |- |Najaf||12.2%||6||28 |- |Nineveh||-||0||37 |- |Qadisiyyah|| 6.7%||3||28 |- |Saladin||-||0 ||28 |- |Wasit||6.0%||3||28 |- ||'''Total:'''||9.8%||43||440 |- |}
==2010 parliamentary election==
In the 2010 parliamentary election, the Sadrist Movement ran as part of the National Iraqi Alliance. At a press conference on 6 March, ahead of the election]], Muqtada al-Sadr called on all Iraqis to participate in the election and support those seeking the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country. Al-Sadr warned that any interference by the United States would be unacceptable. Al-Sadr, who had thousands of staunch followers across Iraq, had been consistently opposing the presence of foreign forces and repeatedly called for an immediate end to the Iraq War.<ref name='HA'>[http://www.hamsayeh.net/hamsayehnet_iran-international%20news994.htm Iraqi Shia Leader Calls for US Withdrawal From Iraq]</ref>
{|class=wikitable style="border:1px solid #8888aa; background-color:#f8f8f8; padding:0px; font-size:90%;" |- !Governorate !Seats won !Total seats |- |Anbar||-||14 |- |Babil||5||16 |- |Baghdad||12||68 |- |Basra||3||24 |- |Dhi Qar||4||18 |- |Diyala||2||13 |- |Dohuk||-||10 |- |Erbil||0||14 |- |Karbala||2||10 |- |Kirkuk||0||12 |- |Maysan||3 ||10 |- |Muthanna||2||7 |- |Najaf||3||12 |- |Nineveh||0||31 |- |Qādisiyyah||2||11 |- |Saladin||0||12 |- |Sulaymaniyah||-||17 |- |Wasit||3||11 |- |Compensatory seats||1||7 |- |Minority seats||-||8 |- ||'''Total'''||42||325 |- |}
==Splinter factions== Over time, numerous factions in the Sadrist Movement disagreed with Muqtada al-Sadr over various issues and broke off, forming separate militias and parties: * Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq<ref name="index">{{cite web |url=http://www.aymennjawad.org/2017/10/hashd-brigade-numbers-index |title=Hashd Brigade Numbers Index |author=Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi |author-link=Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi |date=31 October 2017 |access-date=4 August 2018}}</ref><ref name="Mu'ammal intel">{{cite web |url=http://jihadintel.meforum.org/group/235/jaysh-al-muammal |title=Jaysh al-Mu'ammal |work=Jihad Intel |access-date=4 August 2018}}</ref> * Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas Forces<ref name="index" /><ref name="Mu'ammal intel" /> * Jaysh al-Mu'ammal<ref name="index" /><ref name="Mu'ammal intel" /> * Tashkil al-Hussein al-Tha'ir<ref name="index" /> * Kata'ib al-Tayyar al-Risali<ref name="index" /> * Islamic Virtue Party<ref name="index" />
==Involvement in the Syrian civil war== In October 2012, various Iraqi religious sects joined the conflict in Syria on both sides. Shiites from Iraq, in Babil Governorate and Diyala Governorate, have traveled to Damascus from Baghdad, or from the Shiite holy city of Najaf, Iraq, claiming to protect Sayyida Zeinab, an important Shiite shrine in Damascus.<ref name="Iraqi Sects Join Battle in Syria On Both Sides October 28, 2012">{{cite news|title=Iraqi Sects Join Battle in Syria On Both Sides|date=October 28, 2012|work=New York Times|author1=GHAZI, YASIR |author2=ARANGO, TIM |name-list-style=amp |page=A1}}</ref> Abu Mohamed, with the Sadrist trend, said he recently received an invitation from the Sadrists' leadership to discuss the shrine in Damascus.<ref name="Iraqi Sects Join Battle in Syria On Both Sides October 28, 2012" /> A senior Sadrist official and former member of Parliament, said that convoys of buses from Najaf, under the cover story of pilgrims, were carrying weapons and fighters to Damascus.<ref name="Iraqi Sects Join Battle in Syria On Both Sides October 28, 2012" /> Some of the pilgrims were members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Elite Quds Force.<ref name="Iraqi Sects Join Battle in Syria On Both Sides October 28, 2012" />
However, later in 2017 following the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack in Syria, Muqtada al-Sadr called for Syria's president Bashar al-Assad to step down from power.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-syria-sadr-idUSKBN17B070|title = Sadr becomes first Iraqi Shi'ite leader to urge Assad to step down|newspaper = Reuters|date = 9 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/powerful-iraqi-shiite-cleric-moqtada-al-sadr-calls-assad-chemical-attack-581610|title = After Syria chemical attack, the powerful Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is calling for Assad to step down|website = Newsweek|date = 10 April 2017}}</ref>
== 2014 parliamentary elections ==
In the 2014 parliamentary elections, the Sadrists formed the '''Al-Ahrar Bloc''' ({{langx|ar|كتلة الأحرار|Kotlat Al-Ahrar}} or ''freeones Bloc''), headed by Dia al-Asadi, which strongly opposed a third term for al-Maliki and his State of Law Coalition. Al-Ahrar won 7% of the vote and 34 seats, making it the second largest group in the Iraqi parliament, after the State of Law Coalition, which won 24% and 92 seats. The seats were divided as follows:
{|class="wikitable sortable" |- !Governorate !Seats Won !Total Seats |- | Anbar || – || 15 |- | Babil || 3 || 17 |- | Baghdad || 6 || 69 |- | Basra || 3 || 25 |- | Dahuk || – || 11 |- | Dhi Qar || 2 || 19 |- | Diyala || 1 || 14 |- | Erbil || – || 15 |- | Karbala || 2 || 11 |- | Kirkuk || – || 12 |- | Maysan || 3 || 10 |- | Muthanna || 1 || 7 |- | Najaf || 2 || 12 |- | Ninawa || – || 31 |- | Qādisiyyah || 2 || 11 |- | Salah ad-Din || – || 12 |- | Sulaymaniyah || – || 18 |- | Wasit || 3 || 11 |- | Minority seats || - || 8 |- ! Total || 34* || 325 |}
: * includes: Other allied forces - 6 seats
== 2018 parliamentary elections == In preparation for the 2018 parliamentary election, Sadr withdrew the Al-Ahrar Bloc from parliament and urged its MPs not to stand in the May poll, in order to make way for a new list known as Alliance Towards Reforms, mainly composed of the Sadrist Movement and the Iraqi Communist Party. This list finished as the largest party in the election on 12 May, with 14.38% of the votes and 54 seats in Parliament.
== 2021 parliamentary elections == The Sadrist Movement ended as the largest political party in the 10 October 2021 Iraqi parliamentary elections, with 10% of the votes and 73 seats in Parliament. On 13 June 2022, during the 2021–2022 Iraqi political crisis, 74 MPs from Muqtada al-Sadr's bloc resigned from parliament.<ref name=indep>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-13 |title=Iraqi leaders vow to move ahead after dozens quit parliament |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/muqtada-alsadr-ap-iran-baghdad-shiite-b2099824.html |access-date=2022-06-13 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref>
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