Iraq parliament to hold delayed vote for president on March 26
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The European Union’s Election Observation Mission to Iraq has described October’s national elections as “largely peaceful and orderly” in its final comprehensive assessment.
Iraq held early elections on October 10 in response to one of the core demands of a nationwide, pro-reform protest movement that erupted in 2019.
Feb 6 (Reuters) - Iraq's Supreme Court on Sunday suspended a former foreign minister's presidential bid over graft allegations and many lawmakers said they would boycott a Monday vote for a new head of state, prolonging a political standoff.
The Iraqi Parliament has approved a list of 25 candidates for the presidency.
The legislative body is scheduled to meet on February 7 to vote for the republic's next president, a largely ceremonial role, in an important step towards the formation of a new government after October's general election.
Two children were wounded Tuesday night when rockets were fired towards the home of Iraq's speaker of parliament, security sources said.
Three Katyusha rockets landed some “500 metres” (1,640 feet) from the home of Mohammed al-Halbousi in the Gurma district of Anbar province, west of the capital Baghdad, a security source told AFP.
Hundreds of supporters of Iraq’s powerful Hashd al-Shaabi – a pro-Iranian former paramilitary force – protested on Tuesday against “fraud” at recent parliamentary elections in which their movement performed poorly.
The Conquest (Fatah) Alliance, the political arm of the multiparty Hashd, won about 15 seats in the October 10 vote, according to preliminary results.
In the last parliament, it held 48 seats, making it the second-largest bloc.
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Iraq’s election commission has announced the full results of last weekend’s parliamentary elections, with Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s Sairoon Alliance dominating the polls.
The commission said al-Sadr’s party won 73 seats in the 329-member parliament, followed by Taqaddum (progress) bloc of Parliament Speaker Mohamed al-Halbousi with 37 seats.
Early voting has begun in Iraq’s parliamentary elections, with security forces, prisoners and internally displaced people casting their ballots two days ahead of Sunday’s general vote.
Iraqis are to elect a new parliament in the fifth such vote since a United States-led invasion in 2003 overthrew longtime leader Saddam Hussein.
A total of 329 seats are up for grabs in the election, which was moved forward from 2022 as a concession to youth-led pro-democracy protests that erupted in late 2019.
Past elections in the war-torn country were marred by vote-rigging and corruption allegation
Iraq asked the UN Security Council to monitor the progress of election preparations, as the country gears up to hold a nationwide vote in October, the country's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
Previous elections in the war-torn country were marred with vote-rigging and corruption allegations and reports of irregularities in several provinces and cities.
El Gobierno de Irak ha aprobado este martes aplazar al 10 de octubre las elecciones parlamentarias, previstas para el mes de junio, tras el llamamiento en este sentido formulado por la comisión electoral durante la jornada del domingo.
La decisión ha sido adoptada durante una sesión del Consejo de Ministros encabezada por el primer ministro, Mostfá al Kazemi, en la que han participado además miembros de la Alta Comisión Electoral Independiente (IHEC), según ha informado la agencia iraquí de noticias NINA.
BAGHDAD, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) called Tuesday on foreign countries and diplomatic missions in Iraq to monitor the upcoming elections slated for June 6.
The IHEC said in a statement that it also called on local organizations to monitor the elections at all its stages "to achieve fair elections."
The commission urged all eligible voters to check and update their voter registration records in registration centers across the country, starting from Jan. 2 to Feb. 2.
Bagdad, 7 may (EFE).- El Parlamento iraquí aprobó hoy la designación del exjefe de la Inteligencia Mustafa al Kazemi como nuevo primer ministro y puso fin a cinco meses de interinidad en el cargo Adel Abdelmahadi, quien había dimitido el 29 de noviembre.
El fragmentado Parlamento iraquí respaldó a Al Kazemi y a 15 ministros del nuevo gabinete de Gobierno y pospuso la aprobación de los ministros de Exteriores y Petróleo.
En Irak, le président Barham Saleh a nommé Premier ministre Adnane Zorfi, 54 ans, ex-gouverneur de la province de Najaf, de former un nouveau gouvernement. Il est le deuxième candidat à tenter sa chance, après Mohammed Allawi qui a jeté l’éponge il y a 15 jours face à un Parlement très divisé.
El presidente iraquí, Barham Salih, ha nombrado primer ministro a Mohamed Tawfiq Allawi este sábado, al cumplirse el plazo que dio al Parlamento sin que los grupos políticos hayan consensuado un candidato. Irak se encontraba con un Gobierno en funciones desde que el pasado 1 de diciembre el anterior primer ministro, Adel Abdelmahdi, dimitiera ante la presión de las protestas populares. Las primeras reacciones de los manifestantes han sido de rechazo.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - As Kurdish parties inch closer towards an agreement on forming a new Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), both Turkmens and Christians have been assured they will be given ministerial posts.
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) announced on Monday that provincial elections will be held across the country on April 20, 2020, the second time the date has been changed this year.
They were originally set to take place on Dec. 22, 2018, but IHEC announced in January that they would be postponed until November 2019, five months before the new date just announced.
“The election has been delayed for two years now,” commission member Hazim Redini told Kurdistan 24.