UNHCR and UNAMI announce the success of the elections
UNHCR and UNAMI announce the success of the elections
04/20/2013 6:02 pm
The continuation of counting and sorting .. The ratios good vote and above expectations
BAGHDAD – morning
announced the Electoral Commission for elections and the UN Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), the success of the suffrage in the provincial elections.
and began counting in polling stations in the polling stations after closing funds. said delegates and reporters “morning” The operations of counting underway in the presence of representatives of political entities and observers. According to sources a priority, the proportion of the public vote will surpass expectations, confirming that the percentage of the vote will appear after the completion of counting and sorting. The local elections first test after the departure of U.S. troops, and that the implementation of the voting process took place hands Iraqi 100 percent.
said Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Serbst Mustafa Rashid in a joint news conference with the representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations at the Rashid Hotel on Saturday: “The Commission thanks the efforts of the UN and its representative in Iraq and all the teams of international and local monitors the election of provincial non-performing province for the year 2013. ”
It is said that the election process started since seven o’clock Saturday morning in 12 Iraqi provinces, as they will make about 13.8 million voters cast their ballots in 5190 polling stations and 32 102 polling stations, as well as the provinces of Kurdistan and Anbar, Kirkuk and Nineveh, which will allow where to vote for the displaced from the provinces to participate in elections.
competed in the elections 139 entities and coalitions political participation of 8275 candidates.
said Rashid that “the electoral process took place smoothly, and that the election commission followed the voting public accurately,” he said, adding that some of the cases reached the UNHCR regarding some quarters that tried to affect the functioning of the electoral process.
For his part, praised the representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Martin Kobler the efforts of the Commission for the success of the elections and work hard to keep up with the electoral process in all joints to ensure integrity, transparency and accuracy, confirming there will be no democracy without elections.
He Kubler that “has the impression that this election is better than its predecessor,” noting that “there is progress in the work of UNHCR significantly and highly professional followed in the conduct of these elections, as well as efforts by the Supreme Security Committee supervising the elections.”
He continued: he “found strictly laws Electoral Commission during the voting process,” he said, adding that these elections take place without hands Iraq 100 percent, and that the work of the UN mission is limited to providing advice only.
promised Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the process of holding elections “reassure” the citizen that Iraq still okay.
said the prime minister after his or her vote at the polling station at the Rashid Hotel on Saturday morning: “The elections are also a message to those who are hostile to the political process that you will stop creeping Iraqis towards building their home in accordance with the foundations of democracy.”
But Parliament Speaker Osama Najafi, he said after casting his ballot : “The actions taken by the Office of the elections transparent and clear and has no ambiguity.”
said Speaker of Parliament that “the election mission to change the orientation towards building the country properly through the selection of competent,” noting that “Iraq is the first democracy, and we must assume all obstacles to cast their voices The solutions in front of Iraqis only the ballot boxes. ”
also made the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs Hussain al-Shahristani vote at the Rashid Hotel in Baghdad in the provincial elections.
and the voice of the President of the National Alliance in the House of Representatives Ibrahim al-Jaafari and President of the Supreme Council Ammar al-Hakim, an adviser to Prime Minister Abdel-Halim Zuhairi and advisor to the Vice President of the Republic Sheikh Khalid Al-Mulla., in
turn, called the leader of the Iraqi List, Iyad Allawi, after his or her vote in the provincial elections of citizens to participate in the ballot.
mentions that the agenda announcement of the preliminary results of the elections will be announced Saturday evening.
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