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Iraq's IHEC to start votes recount on
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April
30, 2010
BAGHDAD, —
Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC)
said Thursday it will start manual recount of all
ballots for Baghdad province on Monday and would
continue for around two to three weeks.
"The electoral commission decided to start the
recount for the ballots of Baghdad province next
Monday," Faraj al-Haidari, head of the IHEC told
press conference here.
Haidari also said that his commission would call on
representatives of political bloc which ran in March
7 elections, along with media and international
monitors to attend the recount process.
Hamdiyal al-Hussieni, a female commission member
told reporters in the press conference that her
commission estimated the recount process to take two
to three weeks.
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Faraj al-Haidari, head of the IHEC |
She said that the recount would take place in the
al-Rasheed Hotel in the Green Zone that houses some
Iraqi government offices and foreign embassies,
including the U.S. one.
Late in March, the IHEC announced the preliminary
results of March 7 parliamentary elections with a
slender lead of two seats for secular leader Ayad
Allawi over his rival Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
Maliki said his bloc did not accept the results
announced by IHEC, saying they are "not final" and
demanded manual recount for votes of Baghdad
province which holds 70 seats of the parliament
325-seat. Maliki's State of Law bloc won 26 seats in
Baghdad whereas Allawi's Iraqia garnered 24 seats.
The race has been close for both Maliki and Allawi
during the partial preliminary results that was
announced late in March. The close race rose
tensions in central and southern the country,www.ekurd.netpushing
Maliki and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to press
on the electoral commission to carry out manual
recount for the votes over alleged fraud.
On March 7, some 62.4 percent of more than 18
million eligible voters turned out in some 8,920
polling centers across the country to vote for the
325-seat Iraqi Council of Representatives out of
some 6,300 candidates.
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