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Law State coalition forms a fifth committee to discuss alliances with political blocs	Read more
Monday, March 15th 2010 12:44 PM

Baghdad, March 15 (AKnews)- The Law state coalition, led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki formed a committee of five members to discuss the alliances with the political blocs."The coalition formed a committee of five members that will move towards all political forces to discuss the alliances with them", a leader in the Law State...

Al-Maliki: Electoral breaches won't affect the results	Read more
Monday, March 15th 2010 12:34 PM

Baghdad, March 15 (AKnews)- The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced on Sunday evening that the violations that accompanied the electoral process "will not affect" the results.Al- Maliki said in an interview broadcasted by the semi-official Al-Iraqiya channel while he was heading to a meeting of the National Security Council:...

Karkh office: 75% of the counting and sorting process achieved	Read more
Monday, March 15th 2010 12:06 PM

Baghdad, March 15 (AKnews)- 75% of the counting and sorting process in public and special voting are completed in Karkh district, according to the Electoral Commission in Karkh."Karkh electoral office completed 75% of the counting and sorting process of public and special voting", Director of media in Karkh electoral office, Muhannad...

60% of the elections results to be announced today	Read more
Monday, March 15th 2010 11:24 AM

Baghdad, March 15 (AKnews) - The head of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) in Iraq will announce on Monday about 60% of the preliminary results of the Iraqi parliamentary elections that took place on the seventh of this month, noting that the Commission is ready to accept the complaints after a lot of talk about violations and...

Basra University: new procedures to deal with the winning candidates teachers	Read more
Monday, March 15th 2010 11:06 AM

Basra, March 15 (AKnews)- Basra university presidency decided to adopt new procdeures to deal with professors who won in the parliamentary elections, an official source at the media office at Basra University says."The university is keen to keep the educational institution away from the politicians and their military protection, although it...

IHEC : 50% of votes sorting completed	Read more
Monday, March 15th 2010 9:21 AM

Erbil, Mar. 15 (AKnews) – The head of Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) of Iraq announced today that the electoral commission has sorted 50 percent of the votes and the early results are not released yet."Near to 1,200 officials are continually working to sort ballots in three work shifts… we might announce the final results...

Thousands of votes frozen in Sweden	Read more
Sunday, March 14th 2010 8:01 PM

Erbil, March.14 (AKnews). Some specialized sources in monitoring the Iraqi elections in Sweden said that the representatives of political entities filed a complaint to the High Independent Electoral Commission in Iraq protesting on freezing 6 thousands votes in the seven polling stations in Sweden. "Representatives of the electoral...

Observers: more than 4200 votes in Germany disconsidered	Read more
Sunday, March 14th 2010 8:01 PM

Erbil, March.14 (AKnews).specialized observers in observing the Iraqi community elections in Germany said on Monday that more than 4200 electoral vote were disconsidered because of lack of Iraqi documents required for voting. “The rate of the participation in the parliament elections was good despite of the cold weather “.observers said...

	IHEC: 32.34% of ballots sorted across Iraq as of yet	Read more
Sunday, March 14th 2010 7:26 PM

Sulaimaniyah, Mar. 14 (AKnews) – After the Iraqi legislative poll took place in Iraq on March 7, now the process of sorting and counting the ballot papers are going on across the country. Head of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC)'s Popular Relations Office Abdurrahman Khalifa the process of sorting the ballot papers of the...

Concerns over poll fraud in Kirkuk	Read more
Sunday, March 14th 2010 5:45 PM

Kirkuk, March.14 (AKnews). Khalid Shwani, Kurdistan Alliance MP called the United Nations and the electoral commission to remove the fraud that accompanied the elections in several areas of Kirkuk for the benefit of the Iraqia List.  "we will not give legitimacy to such elections so overwhelmed by fraud in the areas of Hawija ,Zab ,...