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| Iraq's PM vows fight for third term | Iraq's PM vows fight for third term |
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| Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says he will "never give up" on his bid for a third term in office despite foreign and domestic pressure. | |
| His pledge came in a statement read out on state television. | |
| Mr Maliki's alliance of Shia parties won parliamentary elections in April. | |
| However he is seen by many in Iraq as having exacerbated the crisis in Iraq with policies favouring his own Shia community while marginalising the minority Sunni Arabs. | |
| He earlier rejected demands for a national salvation government to help counter the offensive by jihadist-led Sunni rebels, calling instead for political forces to reconcile. | |
| He has also given no promise of greater representation in government for Sunni community, whose anger at what they say are his sectarian and authoritarian policies has been exploited by militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis). |