“To prevent fraud” … the parliamentary governorates call for a session to amend the election law
“To prevent fraud” … the parliamentary governorates call for a session to amend the election law
05/20/2021 15:56:14
The head of the Parliament’s Regions and Governorates Committee, Sherwan Al-Dobardani, called today, Thursday, to the necessity of holding a session of Parliament to conduct an amendment to the early parliamentary elections law, and to rely on biometric cards in the upcoming elections in order to “prevent the falsification of results.”
In a statement, Al-Furat News received a copy of it, Al-Dubaradani said, “Representative political forces must amend the election law, especially with regard to the voter card, in order to conduct fair and fair elections in a manner that removes doubts and concerns about them so that they are not a reason for the citizens’ reluctance to participate in them.”
He added, “And to implement the demands of the demonstrators and in honor of the blood of the martyrs in the squares of the sit-ins, that the elections be early and away from fraud and tampering with their results by restricting them to biometric cards.”
It is noteworthy that early parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Iraq on October 10, in response to the calls of the people, demonstrators and the supreme religious authority.
Abdul-Hussein Al-Hindawi, the Prime Minister’s election advisor, said in a press statement yesterday, “There are many challenges facing conducting any major parliamentary elections, such as the House of Representatives elections, especially as they will be early, but there is not yet any financial, security, technical or political obstacle for real. Can prevent it. ”
He stressed that “the upcoming early elections will take place on October 10, which has become an irreversible final date. The Commission has made important strides in its preparations on the basis of this date, and so is the case for all the electoral process partners.”
It is noteworthy that the Election Commission has approved 44 coalitions and 3,523 candidates, of whom 1002 were submitted by the coalitions, and 1634 were submitted by the parties registered with it, while the number of independent candidates reached 887 candidates, and among the total number of candidates, the women’s quota of 25% was taken into account. 963 female candidates ran for elections.
The commission also registered several national election monitoring networks in parallel with Iraq’s request to the United Nations to send international observers to monitor the upcoming early elections.
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