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Iraqi Shiites, Kurds agree unified poll
lists
27.10.2005
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BAGHDAD, Oct 27 (AFP)
- 16h07 - Iraq's dominant Shiite parties and the two
main Kurdish factions will each field single
candidate lists in the mid-December general
elections, officials said Thursday.
"The United Iraqi Alliance will be maintained," said
Jawad Maliki, number two on Prime Minister Ibrahim
Jaafari's Dawa list, speaking of the Shiite
coalition of more than half a dozen factions which
won 140 of parliament's 275 seats in the January
election.
Shiite political leaders, who control parliament
along with their Kurdish allies, would however
continue to negotiate the respective weighting of
their parties on the list, he added.
For their part, the two main Kurdish parties -- the
Democratic Kurdistan Party and the Patriotic Union
of Kurdistan -- will also present a joint candidate
list as they did in January, said Adnan al-Mufti,
president of the Kurdish regional parliament and one
of the PUK leaders.
"The Kurds will take part in the next elections
putting forward the same joint list as in January
which allowed them to win 76 seats" in the national
parliament, Mufti said.
He acknowledged however that there had been "some
changes to the list" following the withdrawal of the
small Islamic Union of Kurdistan faction which will
field its own candidates independently.
This faction currently has six representatives in
the national parliament and nine in the regional
Kurdish assembly.
Political parties have until Friday to register for
the next general elections.
The announcements from the Shiites and the Kurds
comes a day after three groups representing the
minority Sunni community said they had "agreed to
run on one list under the name Iraqi Concord Front".
AFP
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