Maliki faces struggle to secure third term as Iraqi PM


  • World
  • Tuesday, 29 Apr 2014

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks during a visit to a concrete plant for the Basmaya residential project in Baghdad April 16, 2014. REUTERS/Ahmed Saad

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A casual wave to fellow diners in a Baghdad restaurant in 2008 sealed Nouri al-Maliki's reputation as the man who restored a degree of normality to a city that civil war had nearly destroyed.

Now he has gone out again among the people, strolling around the city to prove he is still attuned to their problems as he lobbied voters to give him a third term as prime minister when they cast their ballots in elections on Wednesday.

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