Chaldean Democratic Party

[1] The party began its activities after the US invasion of Iraq, when the group were licensed to operate in the Kurdish region and joined the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan.

[3] The party was founded by Ablahad Afraim Sawa, who would go on to become its leading figure, and received support from the Chaldean National Congress to begin its operations.

[5] Sawa has previously commented on the restrictions that minority political parties faced in Iraq after the invasion, stating that they were given very few resources and even had to withdraw from elections at a point because of a lack of funding.

In the same year, the party won once again in the December 2005 Iraqi parliamentary election, running under the Kurdish list which received the most votes in Tel Keppe and Tesqopa in the Nineveh governorate.

[9][10] In the 2009 Kurdistan Region parliamentary election, the party ran as part of a United Chaldean List, separate from KDP support but winning no seats.

While directed towards the Chaldean National Congress, Zowaa's statement noted that the membership of these parties were very few in number, and they hadn't actively addressed the continuous demographic changes that Assyrians were facing from the violence of the conflict.

[13] In the same year, the party released an official statement welcoming the return of Louis Raphaël I Sako to Baghdad after the reinstatement of his decree.