Raid Fahmi was elected as member of the Council of Representative of Iraq (COR) and took charge of his office on September 3rd 2018. Raid Fahmi announced his resignation from the Iraqi Parliament on the 27th of October 2019 in solidarity with the popular protest movement and in protest against the lack of effective action from the legislative power to put an end to the use of violence against the demonstrators by the security and other non official armed groups. He is married and a father of four children.