Iraq Election Update – Mother Jones
Iraq Election Update – Mother Jones"
- Select a language for the TTS:
- UK English Female
- UK English Male
- US English Female
- US English Male
- Australian Female
- Australian Male
- Language selected: (auto detect) - EN
Play all audios:
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free _Mother Jones Daily_. Last month about 500 allegedly Baathist Sunnis were banned from running
in Iraq’s upcoming parliamentary elections. Sunnis were pissed. But then, a week ago, an appeals court overturned the ban. The elections were saved! But no: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki,
after some pro forma attacks on American interference, at first tried to convene an emergency session of parliament to overrule the court but then switched gears: > Calls for the
emergency session were later dropped after a highly > unusual meeting convened by Maliki with other key leaders and the > head of the Higher Judicial Council, Medhat al-Mahmoud.
Following > the meeting, the appellate panel was directed to immediately > recommence its review of all case files with decisions having to be > announced prior to the start of the
official electoral campaign > period on February 12. It appears, based on the public statements of > al-Maliki and others, that the impending decisions of the panel on > the
de-Ba’athification status of these individuals will bring this > entire affair to a close. Needless to say, this is a …. _noteworthy_ …. amount of executive interference with the
judiciary. Marc Lynch is cautiously pessimistic: > I still expect this to work out in one way or the other and for the > elections to go ahead, and for some Sunni politicians to take
> advantage of any attempt by others to boycott. I don’t expect it > to lead directly to a return of the insurgency. But at the same > time, by this point significant damage has
probably already been > done….Sunni-Shia resentments have been rekindled, with such > polarization evidently being seen as a winning electoral strategy in > certain quarters. Sunni
participation may well be depressed, though > a full-out boycott is unlikely. The damage is likely to be measured > in increments, not in a single apocalyptic collapse. Gregg Carlstrom
is, I guess, slightly more pessimistic. But no one seems to think it spells doom. The election is on March 7.
Trending News
Israel’s netanyahu says he will be fitted with pacemaker overnightIsrael’s Netanyahu says he will be fitted with pacemaker overnight | WTVB | 1590 AM · 95.5 FM | The Voice of Branch Coun...
Justin Trudeau attacked for ‘hypocrisy’ after using two planes for election campaignJustin Trudeau was called-out by Canada’s opposition Conservative Party after it was revealed he used two planes during ...
POP/ROCK - Oct. 14, 1992 - Los Angeles Times<i> Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's ...
Deborah S. Jin 1968–2016 | NaturePioneer of ultracold quantum physics. ENJOYING OUR LATEST CONTENT? LOGIN OR CREATE AN ACCOUNT TO CONTINUE * Get immediat...
Sustainability: The launch of Spaceship EarthBooks & Arts Published: 25 November 2015 Sustainability: The launch of Spaceship Earth Adam Rome1 Nature volume 527, pa...
Latests News
Iraq Election Update – Mother JonesGet your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free _Mother Jones Daily_. Las...
TSX futures up on higher oil prices; bank earnings start on mixed note(Reuters) – Toronto futures crept higher on Thursday, pushed by oil prices, while Canadian big banks’ quarterly earnings...
Small in Stature, Huge in Impact : Diminutive Williams Stands Tall in Record Book at Canyon After 2nd 1,000-Yard Rushing SeasonEd Williams’ boyhood dream was playing itself out in reality as if it were on the big screen, complete with Technicolor ...
German finance minister: 2024 budget just a first step in fiscal normalizationBERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s budget for 2024 is just a first step towards the needed normalization of fiscal policy, sai...
World war 3: china warned of 'entire world' backlash over taiwanRobert O’Brien, the US national security adviser, made the remarks on the same day China threatened a “legitimate and ne...