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Iraqi PM to challenge parliamentary vote
Published: 27 March, 2010, 03:01
Edited: 27 March, 2010, 12:16
Supporters of Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki during a protest in Baghdad on March 26, 2010 to demand recount of the votes ahead of the final results for the country's general election. (AFP Photo / Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
TAGS: Conflict, Election, Politics, Iraq
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has vowed to challenge election results which have brought victory to the bloc of former premier Ayad Allawi.
Al Maliki made his announcement on national TV just minutes after the results of the voting had been made public. He said he would challenge the vote through the legal process.
According to the election commission, the secular anti – Iranian coalition of Ayad Allawi won 91 seats in the Iraqi 325-seat parliament against 89 seats won by the coalition headed by al-Maliki.
The results of the elections will give Ayad Allawi the opportunity to form a parliamentary majority and then a government. However, the election’s narrow margin opens the possibility of extensive political wrangling.
Despite al-Maliki and his supporters claiming fraud and rigging during the voting process, international observers said the election was fair.
"From our vantage point and from the international community's vantage point, we have not seen any evidence of substantial fraud that would fundamentally change the outcome," US State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley was quoted by AP as saying.
Earlier, the top UN official in Iraq, Ad Melkert, called on all sides to accept the results, the agency reported.
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Mr. Allawi is much more obedient satrap to Sahibs and that is the reason he will be anointed to the role of "prime minister" of occupied Iraq. The invaders have decided to challenge the Patriots and defenders of Iraq.