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The Coalition for Democracy and Justice was founded in September 2017 by Barham Salih who was the former prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the Deputy Prime Minister in the Interim Iraqi Government, and the Deputy Secretary General of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). Salih created the CDJ when he split from the PUK to form an opposition party. The CDJ won two seats in the Iraqi parliamentary elections of May 2018.