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2018-06-13
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SULAIMANI — Iraq’s top court has turned down challenges to recent amendments by parliament to the election law that involve the manual recounting of votes from the May 12 elections.
Iyad al-Samouk, a spokesperson of the court, said the court held a session on Wednesday (June 13) to consider challenges and had decided not to accept the challenges, according to Iraqi News.
The Iraqi parliamentary elections have been surrounded with allegations of fraud, with many parties objecting to the electronic counting system and demanding a manual recount.
The government has laid blame on the Independent High Electoral Commission, which supervised the polls.
The parliament has also decided to replace the commission’s officials with new members being appointed on Monday.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said Tuesday that neither the government nor the parliament had the right to cancel the result of elections.
During his weekly press conference on Tuesday, Abadi said that the Supreme Court was the only authority that has the right to decide if the elections should take place again.
According to official results of the elections held on May 12th, Abadi’s al-Nasr list came third, while Sadr’s Sairoon List came in first and al-Fatah, an alliance of former leaders of the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces placed second.
(NRT/Iraqi News)