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The Iraqi Elections Again: The Results and the Future |
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Sunday, 20 February 2005 |
Finally, the results of the January 30th general elections in Iraq were declared official and final at 4:00 PM Thursday, February, 17th. Three days after their Sunday's (February 13th) announcement that these three days were granted to allow people who had complaints and grievances to address them with the independent high commission for the Iraqi elections, which was in charge of the operation to settle them. The number of voters who participated in the election was 8,465,266 people from inside and outside the country which represented according to the commission was 58% of the Iraqis who were eligible to vote.
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Iraq in a Week: An Air of Reconciliation and a CPA Scandal |
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Saturday, 12 February 2005 |
I was hoping that by now the final and official results of the recent Iraqi elections have been declared, to allow me to analyze the results and compare them with the predictions I have made in an earlier letter. The election results are critical in the way they are going to affect the development process of building a new, free, democratic and federal Iraq. We were told that the results will be declared by about the tenth of February and that would have allowed me a few days to finish my weekly letter. I have said that I will be sending one letter a week, which should have come today, but the situation in Iraq is so fluid and unpredictable that the authority in charge of the election process suddenly decided that the results will be announced a few days late. I decided to fill the void with a letter about some of the major events which have happened inside and outside the country, these new events have affected the situation here to a tremendous extent.
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After The Voting: A Promise or a Prelude to a Calamity |
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Saturday, 05 February 2005 |
Finally those who were insisting on proceeding with the elections on the scheduled date won the day. The election process started two days earlier than expect, not in Iraq but in Australia by the Iraqis who have left the country during the days of Saddam. After the thrown of Saddam, these expatriates were given the chance to participate in the process that was lead by a UN agency, the International Migration Organization (IMO). The IMO was put in charge of the process from Amman in Jordan from were the part of the election regarding Iraqi expatriates would be directed which in its turn would report to the independent high election committee for the Iraqi elections which was in Baghdad. The IMO has estimated that there were about a million Iraqis in 36 cities in 14 countries that were eligible to participate, but it was able to register only 280,000 people. The expatriates were given three days to exercise their right to vote starting from the 28th at 8:00 AM Sydney time the Iraqi elections began but with low participation. The election process moved few hours later to Iran were there was a very heavy turn out and then to Jordan and Syria and few more hours later to Europe, and finally to the United States until it started in Iraq itself on the 30th.
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Iraq: The January 30th National Elections |
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Thursday, 27 January 2005 |
Everything in the current Iraqi situation is dictating that the elections scheduled for next Sunday should have been postponed for at least few months. The most important reason is that the security situation in the country is still very serious, uncontrolled and is extremely dangerous, but the Americans are insisting on going ahead with it in spite of an appeal by a very important group of moderate very sensible political organizations and personalities the appeal was rejected and the exercise is going to take place on the said date. I will be trying to make some predictions which are based on my own understanding of the composition and the relative strength of the various components of the current Iraqi political spectrum.
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