08-01-2010
Bagdad - The Sunni politician Salih Al-Mutlak blamed the government for making concessions to the Kurds. He was recently expelled from Iraqi politics, for being allegedly a Baathist. “The Iraqi government has made too many concessions to the Kurdish authorities in North-Iraq,” he told Al Jazeera. “This is not in the national interest [of Iraq],” he added. According to Al-Mutlak the Kurds want to divide Iraq in several regions with the support of the Shia-dominated government, he warned the Kurds are becoming successful in this.
Recently an Iraqi parliamentary committee has prevented al-Mutlak from running in elections due to his alleged connections with the deposed government of Saddam Hussein. Mutlak wants to the federal status of the Iraq government and end the autonomy of the Iraqi Kurds.
Mutlak is part of the Sunni Iraqi National Movement, which brings VP Tariq al-Hashimi, ex-Iraqi premier Iyad Alawi and Salih al-Mutlak’s National Dialogue Front together. Al Jazeera warns that the banning al-Mutlak from Iraqi politics could result in Sunni unrest and disillusionment (Photo: Rudaw).
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