Iraqi election - fair ?
Nasser | 14.02.2005 19:52 | Social Struggles
The United Iraqi Alliance, a coalition of Shi'ite Muslim groups, won the biggest share of the votes, falling just short of an outright majority. Iraq's election commission says a Kurdish coalition led by Jalal Talabani finished second, with 25 percent. The prime minister of Iraq's interim government, Iyad Allawi, and his allies ranked third, with 14 percent. Authorities in Baghdad say the results announced Sunday will be certified final if they are not challenged within three days.
Well over 8 million Iraqis took part in last month's election, but relatively few ballots were cast by members of the Sunni Muslim minority that dominated the country during the Saddam Hussein regime.
The result has caused consternation for all those who claimed Iyad Allawi was bound to win as he was an American puppet however the result has shown that the election was not rigged by America and did reflect the views of the Iraqi people. Democracy has come to Iraq.
Well over 8 million Iraqis took part in last month's election, but relatively few ballots were cast by members of the Sunni Muslim minority that dominated the country during the Saddam Hussein regime.
The result has caused consternation for all those who claimed Iyad Allawi was bound to win as he was an American puppet however the result has shown that the election was not rigged by America and did reflect the views of the Iraqi people. Democracy has come to Iraq.
Nasser
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Very Funny
15.02.2005 09:18
not laughing
anti-occupation parties were allowed to run
15.02.2005 15:22
""1. A united Iraq - land and people - with full national sovereignty.
2. A timetable for the withdrawal of the multinational forces from Iraq."
The response of the coalition? Well, several days after the election Bush explicitly stated there would be no timetable while one British official last week claimed they would be in Iraq for years - that it was a decades long 'problem'.
In other words, completely ignoring the will of the Iraqi people. Hardly democratic.
to the poster above: have you any evidence free food was given to those who voted? sources? I'm intrigued
Andrew
Its not that simple andrew
15.02.2005 19:11
as for the food thing
if a truly anti american party had won it would have gone ina matter of days
its been done before in many places...iraq being one of them
me again