Representative Legal: The Commission informed us of problems and is heading to postpone the elections
Representative Legal: The Commission informed us of problems and is heading to postpone the elections
01/15/2021 15:58
[Baghdad-Where]
A member of the Parliamentary Legal Committee revealed that the Electoral Commission informed the commission that there were problems in its work and needed more time to solve them and organize its affairs to hold the early elections scheduled for the sixth of next June.
“There is a meeting that will be held to decide the date for holding early elections,” Representative Almas Fadel said in a press statement.
She added, “The Parliamentary Legal Committee met with the Independent High Electoral Commission earlier, as it appeared that the commission had many problems in technical and logistical matters and had not completed most of its work to hold the elections.”
Fadel explained, “The commission cannot complete its technical and logistical matters on the date set for the early elections, and I think that the elections are heading towards postponing to another date.”
Federal Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi had set June 6, 2021, as the date for holding early elections.
And there were reports of postponing early elections after the three presidencies met with the commission and the UNAMI mission on Thursday.
But the Election Commission denied this and confirmed its willingness to hold the elections on the scheduled date or extend it to the month of September at the latest.
The official spokesperson for the Commission, Jumana Al-Ghalai, said in a press statement, today, Friday, that “only about 105 thousand citizens have updated their electoral data,” noting that “the period for updating the data ends on the second of next February.”
Al-Ghalai suggested “extending the period for updating voter registers, for an additional two months, on the recommendation of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi”, pointing out that “citizens not updating their data and extending the time limit causes the commission to delay the work of the commission,” noting that “25 million citizens are entitled to vote, while the number Those who received the biometric card are 14 million voters. ”
After counting the number of births in the years 2001, 2002, and 2003, the number of eligible voters in Iraq reached 25 million, with an increase of two million voters, as 60% of them were registered in the biometric, equivalent to 15 million voters.
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