Saleh al-Mutlaq

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Saleh Muhamed al-Mutlaq is an Iraqi politician who is the head of Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, the second largest Sunni party and the fifth largest political list in Iraq's parliament. He is an important figure in the Sunni section of Iraq's politics.

Dr. Mutlaq is a Sunni Arab secular politician who served as chief Sunni Arab representative on the National Assembly's constitutional drafting committee. He led the Sunni Arab campaign against its ratification when he failed to prevent the inclusion of Shi'ite autonomous regions.

The Iraqi Front for National Dialogue is a Sunni Arab-led Iraqi political list that was formed to contest the December 2005 elections. The Front is not sectarian-based. "The majority of the National Dialogue Council insists that the list is a national list that includes Iraqis from Al-Basrah to Al-Sulaymaniyah," Mr. al-Mutlaq told Al-Arabiyah television last year.

The Front platform calls an end to the presence of foreign troops and to rebuild government institutions. It also plans to focus on Iraq's economic and security problems. Its main components are the Iraqi National Front, the National Front for a Free and United Iraq and the Iraqi Christian Democratic Party of Minas.

The Front performed relatively well in the December 2005 election, winning 11 seats, but complained of widespread electoral fraud and called for a re-run of the poll.

According to the BBC World News, Dr. Mutlaq wants all sects and ethnic groups to set aside their differences. Mr. Mutlaq told the PBS New Hour last year that “Nobody would accept to see that Iraq is not united – that Iraq is going to be disintegrated and to see that the future of Iraq is going to be that way.

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"What he's trying to do now is buy time. The plan is to push Sunnis out of Baghdad." His comments about Nouri al-Maliki. [1]
“The Sunnis are the target of a campaign of genocide,”[2]