Information: - Ayad Allawi (. ; born 1944) was a Vice President of Iraq from 2014 to 2015 and interim Prime Minister of Iraq from 2004 to 2005. - The Prime Minister of Iraq is Iraq's head of government. Prime Minister was originally an appointed office, subsidiary to the head of state, and the nominal leader of the Iraqi parliament. Under the newly adopted constitution the Prime Minister is to be the country's active executive authority. Nouri al-Maliki (formerly Jawad al-Maliki) was selected to be Prime Minister on 21 April 2006. On 14 August 2014 al-Maliki agreed to step down as prime minister of Iraq to allow Haider al-Abadi to take his place. - The Islamic Dawa Party, also known as the Islamic Call Party ("izb Al-Dawa Al-Islmiyya"), is a political party in Iraq. Dawa and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council are two of the main parties in the religious-Shiite United Iraqi Alliance, which won a plurality of seats in both the provisional January 2005 Iraqi election and the longer-term December 2005 election. The party is led by Nouri al-Maliki, who was Prime Minister of Iraq between 20 May 2006 and 8 September 2014. The party backed the Iranian Revolution and also Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during the IranIraq War and the group still receives financial support from Tehran despite ideological differences with the Islamic Republic. - Nouri Kamil Mohammed Hasan al-Maliki (born 20 June 1950), also known as Jawad al-Maliki or Abu Esraa, is an Iraqi politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq from 2006 to 2014. He is secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party and a Vice President of Iraq from 2014 to 2015. - Iraq has three vice presidents or deputy presidents, although a debate is ongoing about a reform to abolish their posts. - A parliamentary election was held in Iraq on 7 March 2010 . The election decided the 325 members of the Council of Representatives of Iraq who would elect the Iraqi Prime Minister and President . The election resulted in a partial victory for the Iraqi National Movement , led by former Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi , which won a total of 91 seats , making it the largest alliance in the Council . The State of Law Coalition , led by incumbent Prime Minister Nouri Al - Maliki , was the second largest grouping with 89 seats . Prior to the election , the Supreme Court in Iraq ruled that the existing electoral law / rule was unconstitutional , and a new elections law made changes in the electoral system . On 15 January 2010 , the Independent High Electoral Commission ( IHEC ) banned 499 candidates from the election due to alleged links with the Ba'ath Party . Before the start of the campaign on 12 February 2010 , IHEC confirmed that the appeals by banned candidates had been rejected and thus all 456 banned candidates would not be allowed to run for the election . The turnout was low ( 62.4 % , see section Results ) compared to the elections of 2005 ( 79.6 % ) . There were numerous allegations of fraud , and a recount of the votes in Baghdad was ordered on 19 April 2010 . On 14 May IHEC announced that after 11,298 ballot boxes had been recounted , there was no sign of fraud or violations . The new parliament opened on 14 June 2010 . After months of fraught negotiations , an agreement was reached on the formation of a new government on 11 November . Talabani would continue as president , Al - Maliki would stay on as prime minister and Allawi would head a new security council . - The President of Iraq is the head of state of Iraq and "safeguards the commitment to the Constitution and the preservation of Iraq's independence, sovereignty, unity, the security of its territories in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution". The President is elected by the Council of Representatives by a two-thirds majority, and is limited to two four-year terms. The President is responsible for ratifying treaties and laws passed by the Council of Representatives, issues pardons on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, and performs the "duty of the Higher Command of the armed forces for ceremonial and honorary purposes". - The State of Law Coalition ("I'tilf Dawlat al-Qnn") also known as Rule of Law Coalition is an Iraqi political coalition formed for the Iraqi governorate elections, 2009 by the Prime Minister of Iraq at the time, Nouri al-Maliki, of the Islamic Dawa Party. What is the relationship between 'iraqi parliamentary election' and 'prime minister of iraq'?
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