Predictions of the announcement of the results of manual counting and sorting in early August

23/7/2018 12:00 am

Baghdad / Sabah - Muhannad Abdul Wahab

The Electoral Commission, on Monday, the counting and manual counting of polling stations and stations in the province of Diyala, after starting on Sunday, in the province of Babylon, under the direct supervision of the Board of Commissioners. This comes at a time, during which the Commission announced on Sunday, And manual counting in the province of Karbala, while confirmed readiness for the province of Najaf.



The Commission is expected to announce the results of the process of manual counting and sorting across the country, early next month.

In parallel with the counting and sorting, the political blocs continue to hold meetings aimed at forming the largest bloc, and despite the initial talks that took place during the past days, but "the wheel of forming the government," going slowly, which is attributed by politicians to wait for ratification of the election results , In order to form the largest bloc within the parliament.


Today the counting begins in Diyala
The official spokesman of the Electoral Commission, Judge Laith Jabr Hamza said in a press statement received "morning", a copy of him: "The Board of Commissioners composed of judges assigned to start counting and manual sorting of the centers and stations received complaints and appeals to the province of Diyala, in the center of the province."

Hamza added that the tightness of the place at the Baghdad International Fair, and to speed up the completion of the centers and stations contested in the province mentioned, the Board of Commissioners of the judges assigned to be direct counting and counting on Monday in the center of the province under the direct supervision of the Board of Commissioners,
Governorate.

Hamza stressed that "the right place for counting and counting was chosen," noting that "the media and agents of the political parties in the province and representatives of the United Nations and organizations concerned with the election, attend to monitor the process."

And revealed the start of counting and manual counting of the centers and stations of the province of Babylon in the same province, which received complaints and appeals to the province of Babylon, and in the center of the province.

In another statement, Hamza stressed that "the re-counting and manual counting of stations and stations received complaints and appeals to the province of Karbala ended yesterday."

Hamza added that "the Board of Commissioners composed of judges assigned to oversee the process of re-counting and manual sorting of the presence of the judge appointed to the Office of the province," pointing out that "the Council will begin on Monday in the counting and manual counting of centers and stations received complaints and appeals to Najaf province and direct supervision From the Board of Commissioners as well as the judge appointed to the province of Najaf, at the Baghdad International Fair.

The results of the parliamentary elections that took place on May 12, 2018 caused a wide debate among the political circles, which called on the House of Representatives to convene an emergency session on 6 June 2018, during which it voted on the third amendment proposal for the Law of the House of Representatives Elections No. 45 of 2013, The manual count and counting of all polling stations and the assignment of nine judges to run the Electoral Commission.


Kurdish joint demands paper
On the consensus on the formation of the government, the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Shirzad Kassem, said in a press statement that "the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic ended the drafting of the joint demands to be presented to the political blocs to form the next government."

He added that "the most important thing contained in the paper demands is the formation of a government on the basis of the Constitution and the application of Article 140 of the Constitution on the disputed areas and the disbursement of salaries of the Peshmerga forces and pledged Parliament to enact the law of oil and gas with the basis of partnership in the political process,

Qassem pointed out that "the joint Kurdish delegation is waiting for the stability of the political situation in Baghdad and end the process of counting and counting of the results of the election, as well as solve the problem of popular protests to put the joint paper before other parties."

While confirming the leadership in the National Coalition, former MP Abdul Karim Abtan, said that "the understandings made by the National Coalition with the political blocs were positive, has stipulated in his understandings that the next government easy to solve in the event of deviation from the government program, which will be ratified by the next parliament.

He added that "this condition can not be achieved only in the absence of interference by political blocs in imposing their will on the next prime minister to name his cabinet and leave the freedom of choice for the prime minister to be accountable to the political blocs and the Iraqi people."


Consensus on the largest bloc
The former MP Harith al-Harthy said, "The state can not be built without the presence of its real elements and its basic components, foremost of which is the legislative authority," noting that "the ratification of the results will lead to the completion of alliances between the winning blocs in the House of Representatives, Formation of the next government. "

He believes that "speeding up the process of counting and sorting the hand and ensure the validity of the election results and free of fraud is the first step fruitful towards the process of state-building."

In the same matter, the head of the Iraqi Foundation for Strategic Studies, Wathiq al-Hashemi, told Al-Sabah that "the results of the elections will be completed by the beginning of next month," pointing out that "this delay is a constitutional violation, considering that the House of Representatives must be held on July 1."

He stressed that "any new delay in the announcement of the election results would disrupt the implementation of the legitimate demands of citizens."


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