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Iraqi election - fair ?

Nasser | 14.02.2005 19:52 | Social Struggles

Where the Iraqi election results fair ?

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.

Nasser

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Very Funny

15.02.2005 09:18

Even though parties opposed to the occupation of Iraq were not allowed run for elections (which explains why the first words out of the shia govt officials mouth were 'Of course we want the Americans to stay') and even though people were bribed into voting by being threatened not to be allowed to vote in the next elections if they didnt vote, and even though they gave out free food to however voted, and the fact that the Iraqi govt has no say over any of the plans made for Iraq by the Americans concerning oil and reconstruction, and even though the some 20% of the population is not represented (though the shia sell outs arent gonna represent the ppl that voted for them only the ppl htat put them there (USA)..even though all this, Democracy has really come to Iraq. Nice one Nasser what are u a member of hte labour party? Why dont u go to another site where there are fools dumb enough to take you seriously.

not laughing

anti-occupation parties were allowed to run

15.02.2005 15:22

and funnily enough, one won. The United Iraqi Alliance ran on a platform promising to end the occupation. Now the chances are they'll backtrack and break their election promises, being so dependent on US aid, financial and military but before the elections their first to policies called for:

""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

Bush and Blair have also said theyd withdraw troops with time the similar thing between the Iraqi alliance and bush and blair is that they didnt specify when

as for the food thing

http://electroniciraq.net/news/1846.shtml

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

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Iraqi election - fair ?

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anti-occupation parties were allowed to run

Its not that simple andrew

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