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New names added to Iraqi Baath list
The Justice and Accountability Commission in Iraq said Tuesday it was vetting nine people elected to parliament because of alleged links to the Baath Party.
Ali al-Alami, the executive director of the commission tasked with vetting candidates from March 7 elections, told the Voices of Iraq news agency that his group filed a petition to examine nine would-be lawmakers because of alleged ties to the outlawed Baath Party.
Alami added that the nine people were affiliated with the Iraqiya coalition of former interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi and the State of Law slate of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Allawi's Iraqiya slate won 91 seats in the 325-member Council of Representatives, defeating State of Law by two seats. Neither coalition won enough seats to unilaterally form a new government, however.