Iraqi election...POST UPDATES

[dyaoko]

hey
I dedicated this topic to iraqi election, please every post just here, to avoid multly topics about iraqi election .


please tell us about iraqi ellection...how it goes...I dont have sattitle dish, I have no info .

how kurdish ppl turned out ...? how Shia and sunnies turned out ?

any violence ? any cheating ?

[Rumtaya]

In German Radio they said that there have been some litle bomb attacksin mousl.

And that at some places the balotts and the votesheets were missing or weren delivered to the places.

And it had been around 14 millon voters.

[dyaoko]

has the turn out been more than the last one ?

how has been the kurdish turn out ?

[dyaoko]

N.Barzani , Kurds will have 50- 55 seats this time... means 15-20 %.
http://peyamner.com/article.php?id=30393&lang=kurdish
[by the way how many seats we had last time ? was it 71 ? ]


Mosul police didnt let kurdish ppl vote...
aftter they found out they are kurd...[by their name or their speaking ]
http://peyamner.com/article.php?id=30409&lang=kurdish

[Piling]

Iraqi turnout is more... I hope that Kurdish turn out too.... These silly abstentionnists !

[dyaoko]

Shitty Kurdsat and Kurdistan TV sites, they are not working...
roj tv is the only tv which I can watch online.

they showed hakim's fans in a large protest...as they were going to war ... with a lot of enthousasim.

but there was not enthousiastic picture from kurdistan. too bad...as I had presidcted...

[Piling]

No matter they are or not enthusiastic, I just hope they have voted enough for having a good numbers of seats.

If they wanted to protest agaisnt their leaders, they should have waited local elections ! Boycott only weakens Kurds for the profit of Arabs and Turkmes !

[Diri]

15 Dec 2005
High turnout forces extension to Iraq's voting day

A spokesman for the Independent Electoral Commission, Fareed Ayar, said " results will be announced within two weeks."

The decision to extend the closing time was the clearest indication so far that there was a large turnout at the country's more than 33,000 polling stations, especially among Sunni Arabs who boycotted the Jan. 30 elections.

According to commission official Hussein Hendawi, the decision was basically taken to deal with a large turnout in Anbar, the western province that is a Sunni Arab stronghold; Diyala, which is split between Shiites and Sunni Arabs; and in the city of Mosul, which has a mix of Kurds and Sunni Arabs.

Commission official Munthur Abdelamir said the decision was made at an emergency session of the commission "in order to allow citizens to vote because of the large turnout."


http://www.krg.org

[dyaoko]

radio farda , the american radio in farsi, said there was High Turnout in kurdish regions....their evidence was a PUK official who talked with them .

[Piling]

But I don't trust official, they always say "today the sun shines" even if it rains as if a cow pisses from the sky ! (free translation of a French expression "pleuvoir comme vache qui pisse").

[ChiChalok]

im voting tonight

[Piling]

im voting tonight

Congratulations !

I hope to publish soonly in the blog a report of a young Kurd from Southern France who made tiring hours and hours in bus to vote in Holland.

[dyaoko]

Reuters : Ethnic tensions mar vote in Iraq's Mosul

At one, in a mixed neighbourhood, tempers flared between election officials and Kurds who claimed nearly 300 Kurdish families were turned away when their names could not be found on the electoral roll.

"I am very angry," said Saleh Ahmed, a 45-year-old Kurd who insisted his name was mysteriously dropped from the roll despite his participation in an October constitutional referendum and in the Jan. 30 election for an interim government.
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As a war of words broke out in the courtyard of the polling station, one Kurdish officer in the Iraqi army, who had been standing guard outside, repeatedly asked a U.S. officer for permission to shoot the electoral official.
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"I wanted to vote for the Kurdish list because I am a Kurd, but the worker marked something else and put my ballot in the box without showing it to me," said one man, as another blast rang out across the city.
...

I copied just important parts, read the full news here :
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BAK559210.htm

[Piling]

A "hot" discuss happened too in Holland between Turkmens and Kurds, while everything was ok between Arabs and Kurds... Both sides (Kurds and Turks) provoked each others about Kirkuk issue..

[dyaoko]

im voting tonight

please do ,,,and encourage every Kurd there to vote....and also discourage others [arabs/turmens] not to vote