Mishan al-Jubouri, accused the government of Nouri al-Maliki of rigging previous elections




Sunday, February 12, 2017 - 23:13 GMT | Posted Number: 23144

Deputy proposed for the reform front Mishan al-Jubouri, the formation of the Council chosen by parliament to replace the Independent Higher Commission for Elections shop, at the same time accusing the government of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of rigging the last election. "
He said that "the problem is not to change the Commission alone, but must change the election mechanism and vote and the law," and added that "the former Iraqi government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has bought half of an electronic system for voting and left the other half for manual sorting so that there will be no room for rigging election results" as he put it.

He continued that "under the pretext of lack of sufficient funds, at the time the Council of Ministers refused to buy the electronic system in an integrated manner," said al-Jubouri, you "must buy the other half of the electronic system to become the electoral system electronically purely so that the people vote like other peoples of the world."

The Tahrir Square in the capital, Baghdad, has witnessed on Saturday, a mass demonstration to demand changes to the Electoral Commission Act, he called for the Sadrist movement and civil power, and dispersed by security forces forcibly used live bullets and tear gas, and fell in those demonstrations four people dead and 320 injured, of whom 79 were shot and wounded District.

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