Baghdad Vote recount doesn't change results: IHEC

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Erbil, May 6 (AKnews) – The Special representative of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) of Iraq announced toady that the Baghdad vote re-count does not change the previous results.

“The IHEC has re-accounted the votes of 2,200 poll stations of Baghdad until now,” Sardar Abdul-Karim said

The re-counting process has taken place under the auspices of local and foreign observers in Baghdad, he noted.

The process has not indicated the basic changes from the issued vote results in Baghdad.

The separation votes have been compared with the form No. 501, which is issued the votes of the entire poll boxes in the province.

The justice commission had demanded IHEC to re-count the issued votes in Baghdad due to remove the suspicions about the issued vote results.

The IHEC, in March 26, issued the final results of Iraqi parliamentary elections which al-Iraqiya list, led by Iraqi former PM, Ayad Allawi, won 91 parliamentary seats and the State of Law list, led by incumbent PM Nuri Al-Maliki, won 89 seats, and the Iraqi National Alliance, got 70 seats and Kurdistani alliance won 43 seats.

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By Patrick Cockburn

Thursday, 6 May 2010

Iraq moved towards forming a new government under a new prime minister yesterday as the two Shia religious political blocs reached an agreement on sharing power.

It is likely that the prime minister Nouri al-Maliki will lose his job as the price of the deal between his State of Law coalition and the Iraqi National Alliance, a powerful group dominated by the followers of the Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

The understanding confirms that Iraq's majority Shia community will continue to dominate the government in alliance with the Kurds who enjoy autonomy close to independence in the north of the country. The new Shia grouping will have 163 seats in the 325-seat parliament, four short of a majority, but the Kurds have a further 43 seats.

Shut out from power are the mostly Sunni Arab followers of Iyad Allawi's al-Iraqiya group, who flocked to the polls in the 7 March general election to win 91 seats.

Mr Allawi has had difficulty allying himself with the Kurds because the Sunni in northern Iraq are in a dispute with the Kurds over territory. A new government will try to incorporate part at least of Mr Allawi's Sunni-dominated bloc so the Sunni do not feel wholly excluded from power. But with a limited number of government posts available to be distributed, Mr Allawi's supporters will inevitably feel disappointed.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...t-1964508.html

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http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/4/142790/

Erbil, May 6 (AKnews) – The Special representative of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) of Iraq announced toady that the Baghdad vote re-count does not change the previous results.

“The IHEC has re-accounted the votes of 2,200 poll stations of Baghdad until now,” Sardar Abdul-Karim said

The re-counting process has taken place under the auspices of local and foreign observers in Baghdad, he noted.

The process has not indicated the basic changes from the issued vote results in Baghdad.

The separation votes have been compared with the form No. 501, which is issued the votes of the entire poll boxes in the province.

The justice commission had demanded IHEC to re-count the issued votes in Baghdad due to remove the suspicions about the issued vote results.

The IHEC, in March 26, issued the final results of Iraqi parliamentary elections which al-Iraqiya list, led by Iraqi former PM, Ayad Allawi, won 91 parliamentary seats and the State of Law list, led by incumbent PM Nuri Al-Maliki, won 89 seats, and the Iraqi National Alliance, got 70 seats and Kurdistani alliance won 43 seats.

This was on Iraqi TV two days ago. It was posted.

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May 6, 2010

Erbil – The Independent High Electoral Commission of Iraq(IHEC) announced that the Baghdad vote recount does not change the results of March 7 elections. “The IHEC has recounted the votes of 2,200 poll stations of Baghdad,” Sardar Abdul-Karim said. The re-count process has taken place under the auspices of local and foreign observers in Baghdad, he noted. The process has not indicated significant changes in the vote results of Baghdad. The justice commission had demanded IHEC to re-count the votes in Baghdad due to some suspicion about the vote results. The IHEC on March 26 issued the final results of Iraqi parliamentary elections and declared al-Iraqiya list, which was led by Iraqi former PM Ayad Allawi, ahead of other lists. Al-Iraqia won 91 seats, the State of Law list, led by incumbent PM Nuri Al-Maliki, won 89 seats, the Iraqi National Alliance got 70 seats, and Kurdistani alliance won 43 seats. (AKnews- IKJ did some changes and editing due to language errors)

Posted by Independent Kurdistan Journalism (IKJ) at 6.5.10

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