Iraq closes all its land and air borders for two days
Iraq closes all its land and air borders for two days
2018/5/6 11:22
[Ayna – follow-up]
Security sources revealed that Iraq will eliminate all its land borders with neighboring countries and stop its flights for two days.
“The closure will begin from 12 pm on the night before the elections [ie, Friday] until 12 pm on the night following the elections [next Sunday], all roads and air routes will be closed,” the sources said.
Iraq is preparing to hold parliamentary elections on 12 May, competing with 320 political parties, coalitions and electoral lists distributed as follows: 88 electoral lists, 205 political entities and 27 electoral alliances, through 7367 candidates, less than the candidates of the last 2014 elections, 9 thousand.
24 million citizens are entitled to cast their ballots in the elections out of 37 million.
alliraqnews.com
