Tram Town
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
| Category: Iraq With the Iraqi election looming ever closer, I am struggling to keep any sort of decent who'd who in my head. Thankfully, Arthur Chrenkoff has again provided an invaluable service: Who's who of Iraqi political parties and lists. Included is this wry observation: To complicate the matters, many new democracies experience explosion of parties as political energies of people are liberated and can finally find legal outlet. In time, survival of the fittest narrows down the field, but during the transitional phase we have to deal with multitude of what the Poles jokingly used to refer to as "sofa parties" (because their membership could all sit together on one sofa). |
