Muslim Scholars Commission question legitimacy of Iraqi elections
Iraq, Politics, 2/3/2005

The Iraqi elections votes selection process which took place on January 30 inside and outside Iraq continued on Wednesday.

Meantime, the Muslim Scholars Commission in Iraq questioned the elections legitimacy, and Iran considered it a vote against the American "occupation."

One official in the independent higher commission said that 11,000 voting cards were counted in the main headquarters in Baghdad with the majority from south East of Iraq during 24 hours. The official who asked to be anonymous explained that only one third of the ballot boxes arrived in the general headquarters to calculate the votes in Baghdad, justifying that as security measures.

One member of the commission Adel al-Lami said two days ago that the counting of votes will take between one week and ten days as a maximum time to get official results.

In the recent reaction from the largest Sunni group in the country to that any government to be formed in line with the election results will lack legitimacy because huge number of Iraqis boycotted the elections.

In a statement, the Muslim Scholars Commission said it honors "the option of those who cast their votes among our people," but it stressed it will consider the coming government "a government ..whose decisions can be appealed, because they lack enough legitimacy."

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