Parliament of Iraq, City of Riyadh, a Former Baathist…………
“Saleh al-Mutlaq, a prominent Iraqi politician banned from contesting next month's parliamentary elections, has announced he is withdrawing his party from the March 7 vote. The opposition National Dialogue Front's decision comes after al-Mutlaq, a Sunni Arab MP, was barred from participating in the elections for alleged ties to the Baath party of Saddam Hussein, Iraq's ousted leader. "The National Dialogue Front has made its final stand. It will boycott the election, but it will stay part of the political process,"Haider al-Mulla, a party spokesman, said in a statement. "The call is open for other political parties to take the same stand as our front. The whole issue is not related to [the candidate ban], rather the unsuitable atmosphere of this election."…… Both the Iraqi government and the US administration hope that Sunni participation in March 7 election would help end a bloody armed opposition launched by Sunni Iraqis after they boycotted the 2005 elections. ..….”
This former Baathist henchman, one of two Allawi allies banned from the elections, wants everybody else on his side to boycott for his own sake. And he is threatening violence and bloodshed if he does not get his way. And he has a vast media across the border supporting him; as if he is running for the mayor of Riyadh (he can’t, he is not a prince, and they don’t run or stand for office).
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