2018-06-13
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SULAIMANI — Members of security and Peshmerga forces protested on Wednesday (June 13) against a decision to cancel votes of security forces in the Iraqi parliamentary election.
Members of Peshmerga forces, counter-terrorism forces, and police staged a protest outside the building of the Sulaimani Provincial Council against Iraqi parliament’s decision to cancel their votes in the May election.
A number of lawmakers from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) also attended the protest.
Several members of the Peshmerga and security forces, however, told NRT that they “are not willingly participating in the protest.”
“We are forced to be here,” they added.
Iraqi parliament amended the elections law on June 6, ordering manual recount of votes and cancelling early votes of the security forces and diaspora as well as internally displaced people.
(NRT)