Emtidad Movement
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Extension Movement حركة امتداد بزووتنەوەی درێژکردنەوە | |
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| Abbreviation | EMT (unofficial) |
| Leader | Alaa Al Rikabi |
| Spokesperson | Manar Obaidi |
| Founder | Alaa Al Rikabi |
| Founded | 1 December 2020 |
| Ideology | Moderation[citation needed] Liberalism[citation needed] Secularism[citation needed] Reformism Iraqi nationalism Nonsectarianism |
| Political position | Centre[citation needed] |
| Seats in the Council of Representatives: | 0 / 329 |
The Emtidad Movement or Emtidad (Arabic: حركة امتداد, romanized: Harakat Emtidad), also sometimes translated as the Extension Movement, was[citation needed] an Iraqi political party formed to contest the 2021 parliamentary election.[1][2]
The party was formed in early December 2020 by Alaa Al Rikabi, a doctor and civil activist with other civil activists inside a tent in Al-Habboubi Square, the stronghold of the 2019–2021 Iraqi protests in the center of Dhi Qar Governorate. The idea was establishing a youth civil movement as an alternative to the current political parties that have failed to run the country and have been implicated in crimes of financial corruption, fueling sectarianism and racism, and creating various crises in the country since 2003. The announcement of the movement came in January 2021 and was called "extension", indicating that the movement's premise stemmed from the demands of the protesters, who demanded the end of sectarianism and state corruption.[3]
