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Fourteen Iraqi politicians and parties linked to Saddam Hussein's Baath party have been barred from taking part in March elections, in a blow for efforts towards national reconciliation.
Saleh al-Mutlak barred from elections
The decision to ban them from the polls, the second since Saddam's ouster after a US-led invasion in 2003, was made by Iraq's Independent Commission for Justice and Accountability in a bid to purge parties alleged to have been sponsored by diehard elements of the banned Baath party. Among the most prominent politicians banned was Saleh al-Mutlak, a secular Sunni lawmaker who heads the National Dialogue Front. "It is clear that this decision is against the law and the constitution," Mutlak told a press conference at his party's headquarters in central Baghdad.
"We are fighters, we will continue to fight"
Saleh al-Mutlak says "I will continue to fight from within the political system or from outside it. I ask everyone to go out and vote to prevent those currently in power from coming back." images of the press conference held by Saleh al-Mutlak after he was barred from running in the March election.

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