On February 7, 2010, an Iraqi appeals panel ruled that 500 mostly Sunni politicians accused of ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party could stand in the 2010 parliamentary elections, reversing an earlier ruling. In its ruling, which was handed down as hundreds protested in Baghdad, the court stated that it was mistaken in thinking it had to rule on all 500 candidates, and would engage in a candidate-by-candidate review of the 177 politicians that had appealed to the court unless a political solution was reached.


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