Election Results

Election Results
Initial announcement of the results of parliamentary elections on Sunday, he says he has not finished counting.

A spokesman for Iraq’s Independent High Commission said Tuesday that he would make an announcement as soon as the order of 30 percent of the vote. Election officials say it should reach this threshold to provide preliminary results on Wednesday or Thursday.

Iraqi officials said planned to publish the preliminary results on Tuesday in Baghdad and other governorates. Iraqi capital is a key electoral prize of Iraq’s competing factions because it commands about one-fifth of the 325 seats in parliament.

UN Security Council praised the elections Monday in a major step towards strengthening Iraq’s national unity and independence. Composed of 15 members and said that the Iraqis have shown their commitment to “peace process, inclusiveness and political democracy.”

More than 6,000 candidates from political parties and coalitions competing in these elections. Any one faction is expected to get an absolute majority, and the formation of a coalition to form a new government could take months.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to keep the hopes that the Shi’ite-led faction of the rule of law in power. He faces challenges from former Shiite allies in the Iraqi National Alliance, a secular Shi’ite and Sunni factions, led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.

The electorate participated in elections on Sunday despite the attacks and bombings that killed 38 people, mostly in Baghdad.

Iraqi authorities said the turnout at the election of the country’s Sunni minority, which was strong compared with the recent parliamentary elections in 2005, when many Sunnis boycotted the process.

In Iraq in turnout was 62 percent.

The new government will be challenged to assume full responsibility for security in Iraq after the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country in late next year.

In Washington on Monday, called on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a milestone for the Iraqi people and the relationship between the United States and Iraq.Initial announcement of the results of parliamentary elections on Sunday, he says he has not finished counting.

A spokesman for Iraq’s Independent High Commission said Tuesday that he would make an announcement as soon as the order of 30 percent of the vote. Election officials say it should reach this threshold to provide preliminary results on Wednesday or Thursday.

Iraqi officials said planned to publish the preliminary results on Tuesday in Baghdad and other governorates. Iraqi capital is a key electoral prize of Iraq’s competing factions because it commands about one-fifth of the 325 seats in parliament.

UN Security Council praised the elections Monday in a major step towards strengthening Iraq’s national unity and independence. Composed of 15 members and said that the Iraqis have shown their commitment to “peace process, inclusiveness and political democracy.”

More than 6,000 candidates from political parties and coalitions competing in these elections. Any one faction is expected to get an absolute majority, and the formation of a coalition to form a new government could take months.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to keep the hopes that the Shi’ite-led faction of the rule of law in power. He faces challenges from former Shiite allies in the Iraqi National Alliance, a secular Shi’ite and Sunni factions, led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.

The electorate participated in elections on Sunday despite the attacks and bombings that killed 38 people, mostly in Baghdad.

Iraqi authorities said the turnout at the election of the country’s Sunni minority, which was strong compared with the recent parliamentary elections in 2005, when many Sunnis boycotted the process.

In Iraq in turnout was 62 percent.

The new government will be challenged to assume full responsibility for security in Iraq after the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country in late next year.

In Washington on Monday, called on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a milestone for the Iraqi people and the relationship between the United States and Iraq.