United Nations: Commission sets out the steps are the future and the date of the election results in Iraq

Thursday, 25 March 2010

Alsumaria News / Baghdad

The UN Mission in Iraq, "UNAMI," Thursday, the Electoral Commission is the only party qualified to determine future steps and the date of the election results, saying at the same time it will not provide any technical assistance in future phases only at the request of the Iraqi government.

The United Nations Special Envoy to Iraq Ad Mlkrt in an interview with "Alsumaria News", "The Electoral Commission is the only party qualified to determine future steps and the date of the initial announcement of the results for the Iraqi elections," asserting that "the work of the international organization is limited to providing technical assistance and support to Office of the elections in Iraq and have no supervisory role in this regard. "

Among Mlkrt that "the initial results of the elections is necessary in order to form a new government and other matters related to transition experienced by Iraq."

The Iraqi government spokesman, said in an interview with "Alsumaria News", yesterday, that there are meetings between the government and other parties held with the representative of the United Nations and Ambassador, Khatib during the past two days to work on a mechanism for a recount in the provinces questionable results, as demanded by Office of the elections in Iraq, "not to rush to declare the final election results until the counting of the manual recount in the provinces questionable results," and declined to comment on the actions taken by the government in case the results were announced on Friday without a recount, saying only "time will speak louder than words ".

The United Nations representative in Iraq, "the ballots of voters who participated in the legislative elections, which took place on the seventh of March, the current conducted in accordance with the mechanisms developed and established by the Commission, which will decide the future steps," stressing that the international organization "would not provide any technical assistance in future phases only at the request of the Iraqi government. "

The President of the Republic outgoing Jalal Talabani demanded the electoral commission said in a statement issued by his office yesterday to "re-counts and counting of ballot papers in a number of Iraqi provinces before the announcement of final results to ensure fairness and transparency of the election results," according to the statement, also called on Prime Minister Iraq's outgoing Nuri al-Maliki said in a statement last Saturday, the Election Commission to respond promptly to the demands of the political blocs to re-count and the hand count, saying that the invitation of the Office comes from his role as Chief Executive Officer in Iraq commanding general of the Iraqi armed forces in order to maintain political stability in the country, and prevent the recurrence of violence that has not been defeated, "he said

Was formed the United Nations Mission "UNAMI" under resolution 1500 of the Security Council in 2003, for a period of one year for the consolidation of United Nations activities in Iraq, the mission has started its operations on 15 September 2003, a cadre of more than 300 employees, to assist the Government of Iraq to parliamentary elections in coordination with the Electoral Commission for elections, and publish annual reports on human rights in Iraq.

The United Nations was involved the process of international control over the Iraqi elections that took place in the seventh of last March at the invitation of the Electoral Commission, at the time directed by the network (P) regulatory charges to the United Nations Mission in Iraq, not neutrality, claiming that they "support" the election monitoring organizations of the parties millions of dollars spent on buying votes, as she put it.

While the UN mission confirmed that it was a neutral in its dealings with all Iraqi parties, especially on the subject of the recent elections.

It is hoped that the Electoral Commission to announce the final results of Iraq's elections on Friday, having started on Saturday day on the thirteenth of the month of March, the current announcement of the results in part, according to the proportion of counting and sorting reached by the staff.

"The expectations are specific to" Alsumaria News "was based on the overall results for the Iraqi elections, according to the proportion of 95% of the counted ballots public, private and overseas, as announced by the Electoral Commission, the rule of law, a coalition headed by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Iraqi National List led by Iyad Allawi three seats, as Maliki won 92 seats, while Allawi within 89 seats with the possibility of winning a seat on an expected additional seats in the Kurdistan Alliance in Kirkuk after the end of the counting and sorting.

The Iraqi National Coalition third with 64 seats, while solving the Kurdistan Alliance was ranked fourth with 42 seats, and then change in fifth place with eight seats, and came with the Accordance Front, the Islamic Union in sixth place with 6 seats and the Islamic Union VII 4 seats, Coalition the unity of Iraq VIII 3 seats, the Kurdistan Islamic Group ninth seats.

The results showed 95% of the counts and counting of the votes of voters, which included universal suffrage and private sectors and abroad, have made the Iraqi list led by Iyad Allawi, more than 11 thousand votes to the list of coalition rule of law, led by outgoing Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's mandate.

Iraqiya list got to 2631388 votes, while you get a coalition of law on 2620042 votes, the resolution of the National Coalition third with 1976412 votes.

An estimated 12 million Iraqis who had participated in the seventh month of March in the second parliamentary elections in the country since the adoption of the Constitution and the third of its kind after 2003, when voters across the open list to choose 325 MPs for the session of the Council of Deputies, which will last for the next four years .

March 26th @ 7: p.m. ~ Friday will Announce the Final Results of the Elections and the manual Recount Impossible ...
Posted by Kel at 3/25/2010 02:23:00 PM
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