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Elections Commission prepared for Iraq's
Kurdistan Regional Elections
8.7.2011 |
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July
8, 2011
ERBIL-Hewlêr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — Iraq’s Kurdistan
Elections Commission is heading forward to prepare
for the elections of the Provinces of north Iraq’s
Kurdistan Region, according to the Commission’s
Chairman on Thursday.
“The Higher Elections Commission had not ceased its
works in Kurdistan Region and had not received any
order by an executive or legislative offices to stop
its activity,” Ali Qader told Aswat al-Iraq news
agency, pointing out that the Commission’s daily
routine works regarding the modernization of the
electorates records were continuing.
He said that “the previous registration and voting
centers were enough and shall open to carry out the
modernization of the electorates,” |
Faraj Haidari, the Chairman of the Higher Elections
Commission, |
adding that “the record of the electorates in the
Region is the best such record in Iraq, thanks to
the cooperation by its citizens, the media and the
social society organizations, instigating citizens
of modernize their records.”
Qader said that the number of voting centers in
Kurdistan Region has reached 79 branch centers in
Sulaimaniyah, 53 in Erbil and 43 in Duhok Provinces.
The Chairman of the Higher Elections Commission,
Faraj Haidari, had told Aswat al-Iraq recently that
Iraq’s Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, had
instructed the freezing of the Commission’s
activity,www.ekurd.netbut
Haidari said the Commission would continue its work
unless the Iraqi Parliament would support the Prime
Minister’s decision.
Noteworthy is that the Iraqi Parliament had
questioned the Higher Independent Elections
Commission in three sessions, in response for a
demand by the State of Law Coalition, led by Maliki,
charging it with material and administrative
corruption.
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