Adnan Pachachi
Adnan Pachachi (born on May 14, 1923 in Baghdad), is the scion of a notable Sunni family with a long tradition in Iraqi politics. The post of Iraq's premiership was the exclusive domain of his father, his uncle and his father-in-law. He was a member of the Iraqi Governing Council and held its presidency in January 2004. He already served as foreign minister during the regime of the presidents Abdul Salam Arif and Abdul Rahman Arif in 1965-67 and as permanent representative to the United Nations in 1959-65 and 1967-68. He landed on Iraqi soil in May 2003 after 32 years in exile (he left Baghdad in 1971 to settle in the United Arab Emirates). On June 1, 2004, he was reportedly nominated to be the next president of Iraq, but declined the post, saying that someone who had less opposition was needed.
A liberal secularist, Pachachi has put together a list of candidates in the Independent Democrats movement to contest the Iraqi National Assembly elections, 2005. However his party failed to win a seat in the assembly with only some 12,000 votes.