<p>Zaid Al-Ali argues that the Iraqi parliamentary election rubber-stamps the rule of a self-serving elite that has been in power since the US-led invasion of 2003. Al-Ali, a former legal advisor with the United Nations in Iraq, speculates on what it would take for a new kind of politics to emerge that truly represents the interests of ordinary Iraqis, regardless of their religious or ethnic identity.</p><br /><br />Visit our website:<br />http://www.france24.com<br /><br />Like us on Facebook:<br />https://www.facebook.com/FRANCE24.English<br /><br />Follow us on Twitter:<br />https://twitter.com/France24_en
