Where two are fighting... by Barbora Misakova

One saying says that where two (men) are fighting, the third one will win. And in the political sphere it is valid even more. Iraq’s effort to build democracy seems to be harder than expected. The poll’s results from March 7 showed that Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s State of Law Alliance is trailing Allawi’s Iraqiya bloc by 11,000 votes nationwide. Even though latest figures are based on 95 percent of ballots, Maliki urged the election commission to proceed with a manual recount. Hundreds of his supporters demonstrated in the holy city of Najaf also calling for a recount, even Maliki just a week ago said the election complaints cannot affect the results.! IHEC – the Independent High Electoral Commission rejected these demands as it would take “too long”. As commission chief Faraj al-Haidari said: “If they have doubts and think that there are errors, they can ask us to hold recounts at particular centres, but not across all of Iraq.” Millions of Iraqi people hazarded their lives – the elections were attended by missile and bomb explosions. The threats of extremists fulfilled – they repeatedly warned they will try to disturb the elections with the use of violence. Total number of killed people is 38 and 110 were injured. All these people were killed or risked their lives and now the doubt is cast upon their votes. What is more the tight race between the two main rivals could give insurgent groups and Al-Qaeda a chance to further destabilize Iraq. That would mean the only thing: the American troops won’t leave Iraq as Barack Obama promised, in 2011.

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by Barbora Misakova for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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