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Iraq election results expected this
weekend
9.2.2006
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BAGHDAD, Iraq
(AP) -- Final certified results for Iraq's Dec. 15
elections will be announced in two days, the
nation's election commission chief said Wednesday.
Adil al-Lami said a judicial commission
investigating complaints about the polling for some
seats had completed its work, allowing the final
certified results to be announced Friday.
"There were many complaints that were given to this
panel, which has finished all its work and we are
ready now to announce all the results and names of
the candidates who won seats for the next
parliament," al-Lami told AP Television News.
Al-Lami did not elaborate, but Independent Electoral
Commission of Iraq official Hussein Hendawi told the
al-Sabah newspaper there were at least 10 complaints
concerning several issues, including the
distribution of compensatory seats and calls to
annul the results taken from some polling stations.
Non-certified final results released last month saw
128 of parliament's 275 seats go to the United Iraqi
Alliance, the country's dominant Shiite coalition.
Two Sunni Arab blocs took a total of 55 seats, while
53 went to the Kurdish Coalition comprising parties
led by President Jalal Talabani and Kurdish leader
Massoud Barzani.
Once final certification occurs, Talabani must
convene the new assembly within two weeks. Under the
law, parliament then has 30 days to elect a new
national president.
The new president has 15 days to name a new prime
minister from the ranks of the Shiite religious
parties. The prime minister-designate then has 30
days to present his Cabinet to parliament for
approval by majority vote.
If the Iraqis take the maximum time allowed for each
step, it would be May before a government is in
place. Vice President Adil Abdul-Mahdi, a Shiite
widely mentioned as possible prime minister, has
said he expected to finish the talks by mid-March.
AP
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