Maliki's political bloc challenging the election results after shrinking the gap with Allawi to half seat

In a surprise announcement would present the results of the elections to a new political earthquake, "said Ali al-Adeeb, a leading figure in the Dawa Party, said the bloc of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki asked the Commission to recount votes, particularly in Baghdad" to reveal the size manipulation was not clear "and following the narrowing gap between bloc and the Iraqi List led by Iyad Allawi, to a value of about half the parliamentary seats so far.

Could not be reached for comment on Maliki's allies in this regard, but a source close to the government said the "world" that what the writer of the additional manipulation for Allawi "reflects the real concerns within the bloc of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki," as asked Jamal watermelon, a lead candidate Iraqi List said "see who can do manipulation against Maliki, the prime minister has extended its influence on the security forces and all state agencies, and that he has influence within the Commission itself?".

According to calculations conducted by the agency, "Alsumaria News" results showed 66% of the results of counting and sorting of universal suffrage in all governorates of Iraq coalition made rule of law "by obtaining 1,756,993 votes in all governorates of Iraq, with Iraqi List of 1,734,117 votes, and got the Iraqi National Coalition 1331929 voice."

This means that the block ahead of Allawi al-Maliki about 20 thousand audio-only, which represents the value of half the seats in parliament compared to the overall rate in Iraq (the value of the seat 28 to 48 thousand votes, "but the numbers are subject to change after the completion of the results later.

Quoted "Alsumaria News" about the writer as saying yesterday that "coalition (state law) the book written to the Commission requesting a recount of the new, particularly in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad."

And the writer that "the coalition of the rule of law refers to certain information for manipulation in the counting of votes is in favor of certain political in Baghdad on him."

Before, and the Iraqi National Coalition and the Iraqi List said the challenge to the voting process, which was organized in the seventh month and voicing fears of a manipulation, but Maliki's political bloc supported the Electoral Commission and the Commission called for giving full confidence, saying that "only losers and challenging in the work of UNHCR."

Maliki said earlier, "I got manipulation but are limited and do not affect the overall results."

But the writer is the Deputy Secretary-General of the Islamic Dawa Party, led by al-Maliki, adding that "the information and reached a coalition of law prove that the manipulation of the figures on the outcome of the coalition in Baghdad by some quarters," explaining that "the large population size in Baghdad, allowed for some to think that are not detected in the manipulation of results."

He pointed out that the "coalition of the rule of law also considers the existence of fraud in the election results in the other provinces," noting that "the size of this manipulation is not clear is the lack of announcement of final results."

Allawi has emerged as the biggest challenge facing al-Maliki since announcing preliminary results, says the political circles that the prime minister's opponents, outgoing, might have known the candidate secular strong ties with Arab countries, a good alternative for the next period.

It may mean calling party's request for a recount of the vote in Baghdad and several provinces of UNHCR's work to expose more of the charges, which is some fear could lead to discredit the legitimacy of the elections, especially after the increase in appeals.

Previously, representatives of the religious authority in Najaf, said the Commission asked to expedite the announcement of the results of careful escalation of appeals and accusations.

But the candidate for the Iraqi List, the beauty of melon said in a statement for "the world" that the list of "outside the organs of power, and everyone knows who is the party that dominates the UNHCR," denying the possibility of the involvement of this list in any color of manipulation.

The Iraqi List is also facing accusations of fraud by the Kurdistan Alliance, which came second after in Kirkuk, and Kurdish leaders called on UNHCR to recount votes and the other Arab villages near Kirkuk, a disputed, saying that Allawi's supporters manipulated the results to the benefit of the Iraqi List.

He says that the reluctance of UNHCR watermelons in declaring the results "raise doubts, and of course the right of all candidates for re-screening," but he believed in the same time that the opportunity for fraud "remains limited, because the censorship was severe, was not able to do any manipulation by the scale, despite earlier fears of the possibility of counterfeiting.

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