Bait and Switch

100 of the candidates who ran for election from Sunni parties have been disqualified for alleged ties with the Ba'ath Party.

What this means, of course, is that people voting for the lists of said candidates will not be getting the representatives they thought they were voting for. They might even get candidates whose earlier inclusion in the lists might have caused significant numbers of voters to have voted differently.

This, of course, allows for more manipulation of the election, just as earlier on the secrecy of the party lists may have done. (See also here and here).

There may not be anything nefarious here; these candidates may really have Ba'ath connections and were initially allowed because no one with the power to disqualify them was aware of it.

But how many Sunni Arabs will feel differently?

That is all.