The UIA's main components were: In advance of the December 2005 elections, Moqtada al-Sadr's party chose to join the Alliance.

In a blow to the Alliance, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani announced that he would not back any particular party for the election; he merely encouraged people to vote "according to their beliefs."

The Iraqi Islamic Party originally registered for the January elections but then decided to boycott the polls, which meant that it did not gain any seats.

[4] However, the Association of Muslim Scholars, which is influential in the Sunni community, has called for a boycott of the December elections, which could have an adverse impact on the Iraqi Accord Front's success.

On 22 December 2005 Sunni Arab and secular Shiite factions demanded that an international body review election fraud complaints, and threatened to boycott the new legislature.

Sheik Mahmoud al-Sumaidaei of the Association of Muslim Scholars, a major Sunni clerical group, told followers during prayers at Baghdad's Umm al-Qura mosque that they were "living a conspiracy built on lies and forgery.

[6] The president of the Students' Union of Mosul University, Qusay Salahaddin, was abducted and killed after leading a demonstration against the election results.

[7] Approximately 2,000 students gathered at the mosque where his body was transported, accusing militia forces affiliated with one of the main parties in the Shiite Alliance bloc for Salahaddin's murder.