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Iraqi elections participation at 59%; al-Seistani list wins the majority, Allawi is the third after the Kurds
Iraq, Politics, 2/14/2005
The Independent Higher Commission Of The Elections in Iraq announced that the united Iraqi coalition list supported by the Shiite clergy Ayatullah al-Seistani won 48.1% of the votes in the national assembly ( Parliament) elections which took place on January 30th.
In a press conference held in Baghdad, the commission said that this list got 4,075,291 votes out of 8,456,266 voted followed by the list of the Kurdish parties which got 25.7%, representing 2,175,551 votes. The list of the interim prime minister Eyad Allawi took the third position by getting 13.8% of the votes.
The commission indicated that the rate of participation in the Iraqi elections reached 59% and that the number of voters reached 84562666 out of 14.2 million Iraqis eligible to vote.
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