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Voter registration in Kurdistan off to
good start: UN envoy
2.6.2009
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June
2, 2009
BAGHDAD, Iraq, —
The United Nations envoy to Iraq has congratulated
the election officials and people of the Northern
Region of Kurdistan “for completing a successful and
peaceful first week of the voter registration” for
next month’s regional elections.
Staffan de Mistura, the Secretary-General’s Special
Representative for Iraq, said 89 voter registration
update centres successfully opened across the
Northern Region of Kurdistan (KRG) and in Baghdad,
according to a news release issued by the UN
Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI).
In addition,www.ekurd.net
nearly 40,480 people visited the
centres during the first week to verify or correct
their information so that they are properly
registered to vote in the KRG elections on 25 July.
Mr. de Mistura said that the turnout and
participation in the voter registration update in
the KRG is a “positive signal” for greater
participation in the national voter registration
update scheduled to begin in early August for the
Council of Representatives election in January 2010.
He urged everyone in the KRG to visit the
registration update centres in the coming week to
ensure they are properly listed on the voters list
before the process is completed.
IHEC reported that 1,109 observers and 650 political
agents that visited the eighty nine centers to
ensure proper procedures are being followed.
It is estimated that up to two million people will
be eligible to vote in the upcoming elections.
Political parties and observer groups are encouraged
to accredit and to observe the voter registration
update period as well as the Election Day itself.
Further details can be obtained from the IHEC,www.ekurd.net
website at www.ihec.iq .
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