The National Stance Movement (Kurdish: ڕەوتی هەڵوێستی نیشتیمانی, romanized: Rewtî Helwêstî Nîştimanî, abbreviated as Halwest) is a political party in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

The party was also joined by disgruntled teachers who have been protesting the repeated failure by authorities to pay their salaries over the last few years.

Draw Media also reported, that there was internal conflict at the foundational conference and that prominent founding members like Yûsif Mihemed and Mesûd Ebdulxaliq withdrew.

[5] The party leader Ali Hama Saleh was a MP of the Gorran Movement well known for his economic expertise and his criticism of the Kurdistan Region government's policies regarding oil and income.

[6] For his concise breakdowns of alleged corrupt deals over land, benefits and oil, also on his own show on the newschannel KNN, he became known as "The Calculator".

[13] On 21 October 2021, after spending over a year behind bars without conviction, he was found guilty by an Erbil court for breaching a law about inciting violence and planning violent protests.