November 2, 2007
BAGHDAD, -- The Iraqi legislator from the
Kurdistan Coalition (KC) Dr Mahmoud Othman
criticized on Friday the law on parliament
elections, calling for reconsidering it because it
"undermines Kurds' interests."
"The law has many gaps and does not serve the Kurds'
interests," Mahmoud Othman, whose KC is the second
largest bloc in the Iraqi parliament with 53 out of
a total 275 seats, said.
"Due to the separate counting of votes in each
province during the last elections, the Kurds were
harmed. Each Kurdish candidate needed 50,000 votes
while other candidates in central and southern Iraq
needed only 40,000 votes.
This way the Kurds obtained only 53 seats although
the real number of seats they won was 67," Othman
explained.
Othman called on all Kurdish politicians to
intensify efforts to have the laws on elections
changed.
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Dr
Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish legislator, member of the
Kurdistan National Democratic Union |
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