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| Iraq: 44.5 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in parliamentary polls |
| 2018-05-14 |
| Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ The Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) said on Sunday that 44.5 percent of Iraqis cast their ballots in the first legislative elections in the country since the defeat of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... last year. "Of all 24.5 million eligible voters, just 10,8 million voted in the parliamentary polls with a percentage of 44.2," Knooz Media quoted Riyadh al-Badran, the commission’s spokesperson, as saying. Commenting on recent reports of fierce festivities between rival parties in oil-rich Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Badran stressed that the electoral process was running smoothly there, noting that "all political parties have the right to challenge the results of elections." In October, Iraqi forces backed by Shi’ite militias dislodged Kurdish Peshmerga fighters who had taken control of Kirkuk city in 2014, preventing its capture by Islamic State Lions of Islam who had overrun Iraqi army positions in northern and western Iraq. The return of the Iraqi army to Kirkuk was greeted with relief by the Arab and Turkmen populations there. Saturday’s elections are the first in Iraq since the defeat of Islamic State last year by Iraqi forces backed by a U.S.-led coalition. The elections will decide the 329 members of the Council of Representatives who will in turn elect the Iraqi president and prime minister. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 that 45% is way down from previous elections |
| Posted by: lord garth 2018-05-14 09:35 |