Baghdad: The Iraqi parliament poll on Sunday drew one of the smallest additions over the years, election officials showed, with the low participation showed the trust in political leaders and the democratic system carried out by the 2003 US leadership invasion.
The authorities were dominated by Islamists established By Islam which has armed wings is expected to sweep votes, with the movement led by the Populis Shia Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who opposes foreign interference and whose rivals are Iran’s Shiite group, seen appearing as the largest fraction of parliament.
Such results will not dramatically change the balance of power in the wider Iraq or West Asia, say Iraqi officials, foreign diplomats and analysts, but for Iraq it can mean that former leaders of rebellion and conservative Islamists can increase their shaking above the government.
Two election commission officials said the national election was 19% at midday.
The total election was 44.5% in the last election in 2018.
Politing booths closed at 6pm (08.30pm ist) the initial results are expected on Monday but the final voter number can be announced on Sunday.
However, Iraqi polls are often followed by the protracted talks over the president, PM and Cabinet.
It seems to be the lowest voter in any election since 2003, according to the Election Commission which is calculated at the polling station.
In Baghdad’s Sadr City, a polling station established in a girl’s school saw a slow but stable droplets.
The voluntary election of Hamid Majid, 24, said he had chosen his old school teacher, a candidate for the Sadrists.
“He educated many of us in the area so that all young people chose him.
It’s time for the Sadrist movement,” he said.
The selection was held several months earlier under the new law designed to assist independent candidates – response to anti-government protests that extend two years ago.
“Jockeys and government formations will look the same – the same party will come to share strength and do not provide a population with basic services and work and on it will continue to silence differences of opinion.
This is concerned,” said Renad Mansour from Iraqi initiative at Chatham House Think Tanks .
School teacher Abdul Ameer Hassan Al-Saadi said he was boycotting the election, the first poll because of mass protests over corruption, unemployed and poor service erupted in 2019.
“My 17-year-old son was killed by a tear gas tube that was fired by the police,” said Al-Saadi.
“I will not choose killers and corrupt politicians.”
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