The Yazidi Movement for Reform and Progress is a Yezidi political party in Iraq. The party represents Yezidi people in the Nineveh plains. It ran in the December 2005 elections and won 0.2% of the popular vote, thus receiving one seat in the Iraqi parliament (held by Amin Farhan Jejo). The party won a local governorate seat in Ninewa in the January 2005 elections and in the January 2009 elections as well.
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