The Iraqi governorate elections were held for the first time in almost 10 years on December 18, 2023, after many delays, mostly due to the demonstrations demanding the end of the existing political system in 2019.
For the Assyrians, reserved seats were allocated in the following governorates: Basra, Baghdad, Kirkuk, and Ninewa.
This had led to the Assyrian reserved seats be hijacked by pro-Iranian parties, with mobilization of mostly Shia Arabs voting for the Babylon Movement.
Independent parties continued to complain of the reserved Assyrian seats being at risk of taken by candidates of the Babylon Movement, through votes by non-Assyrian voters.
[3] The other two main groups were the Athra Alliance, headed by the Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM,) and the Hammurabi Coalition, a group formed by the Kurdistan Democratic Party-member and KRG Minister of Communication during the time of the elections, Ano Abdoka.