Alliance Towards Reforms

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{{short description|Iraqi electoral coalition that includes Sadrist and secular parties}}

{{Infobox Political Party

| name = Alliance Towards Reforms

| native_name = تحالف سائرون للإصلاح

| logo = Logo of the Saairun.png

| logo_size = 230px

| leader = Hassan al-Aquli{{cite web|url=http://www.iraqicp.com/index.php/sections/files/415-2018-01-29-19-32-40/348-2018-01-26-16-52-45|title=كلمة د.حسن العاقولي رئيس تحالف "سائرون"|last=shooq|website=www.iraqicp.com}}{{cite web|url=http://m.thebaghdadpost.com/ar/Story/79844|title="سائرون": يصعب التوصل لتقاربات سياسية مع التحالفات الأخرى لخوض الانتخابات|date=21 January 2018|publisher=}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web|url=http://www.alrasheedmedia.com/2018/01/19/95277/|title=لقاء خاص مع رئيس تحالف سائرون د. حسن العاقولي|website=www.alrasheedmedia.com|access-date=28 May 2018|archive-date=29 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180529054516/http://www.alrasheedmedia.com/2018/01/19/95277/|url-status=dead}} (Political leader)
Muqtada al-Sadr (Spiritual leader)

| foundation = 25 January 2018{{cite web|url=http://www.iraqicp.com/index.php/sections/orbits/192-2018-01-26-16-35-40|title=إعلان تحالف "سائرون" لخوض الانتخابات البرلمانية والمحلية|last=shooq|website=www.iraqicp.com}}

| ideology = {{Nowrap|Iraqi nationalism{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/opinion/moktada-al-sadr-iraq.html|title=Opinion - Can a Shiite Cleric Pull Iraq Out of the Sectarian Trap?|newspaper=The New York Times|date=11 May 2018|publisher=|last1=Cambanis|first1=Thanassis}}
Anti-corruption
Factions:
Social democracy{{cite web|url=http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2018/05/15/Sadr-willing-to-ally-with-Iraqi-blocs-to-form-technocratic-government.html|title=Sadr willing to ally with Iraqi blocs to form technocratic government|website=english.alarabiya.net|date=15 May 2018}}
Syncretic politics{{cite web|url=http://www.cpusa.org/article/interview-with-the-iraqi-communist-party/|title=Interview with the Iraqi Communist Party|date=18 July 2003|publisher=}}
Shi'a political thought{{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}}
Communism}}

| position = Big tent{{cite web|url=http://www.rudaw.net/mobile/english/middleeast/iraq/140520185|title=Sadr calls for technocratic government in pun-heavy tweet|publisher=}}

| religion =

| headquarters =

| international =

| colorcode = {{party color|Alliance Towards Reforms}}

| dissolved = 24 July 2021{{cite web|title=Statement of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party: No Participation in Elections that is not Gateway to Desired Change |url= http://solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Iraqi-CP-Statement-of-the-Central-Committee-on-Boycotting-the-Elections-24-7-2021-English.pdf}}

| colors = {{colorbox|#008B8B}} Dark cyan
{{colorbox|#2EDBEB}} Turquoise

| website =

| country = Iraq

}}

The Alliance Towards Reforms or Marching Towards Reform ({{langx|ar|تحالف سائرون للإصلاح}}), also known by its Arabic short form Saairun ({{langx|ar|سائرون}}, {{transl|ar|Saairun}}, {{literal translation|Forward}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/who-is-moqtada-al-sadr-iraq-s-anti-u-s-likely-next-pm-1.6092582|title=Who Is Moqtada al-Sadr? The Cleric Who Attacked U.S. Troops and Is Iraq's Likely Next PM|date=15 May 2018|publisher=Reuters|access-date=16 May 2018}}), was an Iraqi electoral coalition formed to gain political control in the 2018 general election. The main components were the Shi’a Islamist Sadrist Integrity Party, the leftist Iraqi Communist Party,{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-44178771|title=Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr bloc wins Iraq elections|date=18 May 2018|publisher=BBC News|access-date=18 May 2018|language=en-GB}} the Youth Movement for Change Party, the Party of Progress and Reform and the Iraqi Republican Group and the State of Justice Party.{{Cite news|url=http://www.shafaaq.com/en/En_NewsReader/557615e4-a090-4bf2-8f3e-964ac23de8e2|title=Meet Iraq's plentiful parliamentary alliances|accessdate=19 May 2018|publisher=Shafaq News|date=26 January 2018|archive-date=19 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180519205116/http://www.shafaaq.com/en/En_NewsReader/557615e4-a090-4bf2-8f3e-964ac23de8e2|url-status=dead}}{{Cite news|url=http://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|work=Middle East Centre|access-date=20 June 2018|language=en-US}} The alliance won 54 seats, more than any other coalition in the election.

In the previous election, the Sadrists (a Shia movement emerging in the 1990s to oppose President Saddam Hussein) had run as the Al-Ahrar Bloc and won 34 seats.See 2014 Iraqi parliamentary election for further details. They initially supported the al Abadi government, with Baha al-Araji serving as one of the Deputy Prime Ministers.{{Cite web|url=http://www.eu-iraq.com/index.php/news/item/251-a-look-at-the-new-iraqi-cabinet|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072555/http://www.eu-iraq.com/index.php/news/item/251-a-look-at-the-new-iraqi-cabinet|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 March 2016|title=EIFA - A look at the new Iraqi Cabinet|date=10 September 2014|access-date=16 May 2018}} However, they later withdrew this stance, organizing protests against government corruption and sectarianism. On 30 April 2016, supporters of the Alliance Towards Reforms occupied the Council of Representatives in protest.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36176910|title=Shia protesters storm Iraq parliament|date=30 April 2016|publisher=BBC News|access-date=16 May 2018|language=en-GB}}

The coalition effectively ended when the Iraqi Communist Party decided to boycott the 2021 general election.