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| Iraq |
| Iraq's Kurds threaten to boycott elections |
| 2009-11-17 |
| Iraq's Kurds are threatening to boycott national elections slated for January unless the allocation of seats in parliament is revised in what they describe as a "fair manner." The office of Kurdistan autonomous regional President Massoud Barzani said in a statement Tuesday the distribution of seats is unfair to Kurds. Barzani's office said the people of Kurdistan "would be forced to boycott" the elections if changes were not made. The warning comes after Iraq's Sunni Arab vice president threatened to veto a key election law needed for the January vote. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #2 I think one of the problems is that there is no census in Iraq (which opens up another can of worms) so there are only guesstimates to each factions numbers and each faction overstates their numbers and demands. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-11-17 11:55 |
| #1 joe biden was right, just partition the place. |
| Posted by: bman 2009-11-17 11:49 |