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BAGHDAD — Iraq’s electoral commission on Thursday asked the country’s highest judicial power to decide whether a ruling to allow barred candidates to run in national elections March 7 is binding.
An appeals court’s decision Wednesday to allow hundreds of candidates — the most prominent of whom are Sunni — onto the ballots despite supposed ties to Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party angered the Shiite political establishment, which has accused the panel of bowing to U.S. pressure.
