sentences:  It is mostly made up of Shiite Iraqi Turkmen.In the elections in January 2005 and December 2005 it joined with other Shiite parties in the United Iraqi Alliance.The deputy leader of the party is Jasim Mohammed Jaafar, who was the Minister of Housing and Construction in the 2005 Iraqi Transitional Government and Minister of Youth and Sports in the 2006 government of Nouri al-Maliki.