*****Start counting the initial count of the general elections in Iraq

Wednesday, April 30 / April 2014 18:24
   

Twilight News / began polling stations across the provinces counting and sorting the first parliamentary elections after closing all stations in the sixth hour of the afternoon.



 It is expected to announce the first results are in later. And began polling stations scattered in the provinces counting and sorting initial amid tight security.

The election commission closed at six of Wednesday afternoon all the polling stations in cities across the country after it began to receive voters at seven in the morning amid tight security was not devoid of violence.

The ballot boxes will be transferred later under heavy guard, where operations will be counting and auditing centralized Friday.

Have not been voting in some parts of the country controlled by the militants, "Daash" in Anbar, especially in the city of Fallujah, which came out of the control of the government for nearly four months.

Iraqis defied a wave of attacks by gunmen Wednesday flocked to polling stations in large numbers with the announcement of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki expected to cast his vote for "win-win".

The queues of voters gathered since early morning as voting began at seven in the morning and a ban on cars roam the streets of Baghdad.

Voters will select 328 deputies from among 9012 candidates for the seats in parliament in elections represent a referendum on Maliki, who has ruled the country for eight years.

And 22 million Iraqis are entitled to vote with the opening of about 50 thousand polling station doors to voters across the country and in the first elections since the withdrawal of U.S. troops.

Maliki was among the first to cast ballots in a hotel next to the Green Zone under tight security, where there is the seat of government.

This and many Iraqis fear that the delayed announcement of election results for many weeks, something which threatens to delay the formation of the new government.


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