URGENT/Manual vote recount in Baghdad to start on MONDAY

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URGENT / Manual vote recount in Baghdad to start on Monday

April 28, 2010 - 03:49:08

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The manual vote recount of Baghdad province will start next Monday, head of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) said on Wednesday.

“The commission has completed the technical and logistic procedures of the recounting process in Baghdad,” Hamdiya al-Husseini told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, noting that the process will begin next Monday.

“All details will be announced at a press conference on Thursday (April 29) in Baghdad,” she explained.

The manual recount affects more than 2.5 million ballots cast in Baghdad province; they account for 68 seats in the 325-seat Iraqi parliament.

The recounting is to delay the formation of an Iraqi government coalition after a close race between Maliki and former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.

Allawi’s Iraqiya bloc won 91 seats in the 325-member Parliament compared to 89 grabbed by Maliki’s State of Law alliance.

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What the !@#$ is going on there they look like the US..........