Iraq Election Update – Mother Jones
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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.
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