The legitimacy crisis in Iraq after 2005 and ways to address it

Abstract

The research includes features and causes that led to the emergence of a real crisis called the crisis of legitimacy in Iraq after 2005 and ways to deal with it, and since the first condition of legitimacy is achieved by conducting general, free and fair elections in which every Iraqi citizen meets the basic conditions of election from the acquisition of  ationality and eligibility, The existence of legal impediments to the exercise of political rights. And the follower of the parliamentary elections that took place in Iraq after the entry into force of the 2005 Constitution, we see that whatever they practiced in accordance with what is stipulated in the Iraqi constitution, but it was plagued by a set of imbalances and dichotomy, both in terms of the electoral system or in the management of the electoral process and others.