La Comédie Noire
19th November 2009, 16:32
Sunni exiles had demanded that their share of seats be increased from 5% to 15% in the new 323-seat legislature.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/18/iraq-general-election-law-veto
Faleh Abdel Jabbar, head of the Beirut-based Iraqi Institute for
Strategic Studies, which conducts surveys in Iraq, said only half of
Baghdad's pre-war upper and middle class remains. Before the war, of the
5.5 million to 6 million people living in Baghdad, 54 per cent belonged
to the middle class: 90 per cent were salaried and 10 per cent lived off
property or business. The upper middle class accounted for 1 per cent.
Thirty-eight per cent were working class.
http://www.spartacuslives.org/node/5662
I think rather than trying to get an ethnic minority's voice heard in the Iraqi Parliament, they're trying to build a conservative electorate that will be eager for stability at any cost, including the tolerance of a puppet government.
I may be wrong, but it seems to me the only people who could afford to flea abroad are middle and upper class Iraqis.
Thoughts?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/18/iraq-general-election-law-veto
Faleh Abdel Jabbar, head of the Beirut-based Iraqi Institute for
Strategic Studies, which conducts surveys in Iraq, said only half of
Baghdad's pre-war upper and middle class remains. Before the war, of the
5.5 million to 6 million people living in Baghdad, 54 per cent belonged
to the middle class: 90 per cent were salaried and 10 per cent lived off
property or business. The upper middle class accounted for 1 per cent.
Thirty-eight per cent were working class.
http://www.spartacuslives.org/node/5662
I think rather than trying to get an ethnic minority's voice heard in the Iraqi Parliament, they're trying to build a conservative electorate that will be eager for stability at any cost, including the tolerance of a puppet government.
I may be wrong, but it seems to me the only people who could afford to flea abroad are middle and upper class Iraqis.
Thoughts?