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First results due Monday in Iraqi Kurd election
Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:28am EDT
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ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Preliminary results of elections in Iraqi Kurdistan, widely expected to keep two ruling parties in power despite an unprecedented opposition challenge, will be announced on Monday, Iraq's electoral commission said.
Kurdish opposition groups are complaining of violations in Saturday's parliamentary and presidential vote, the first time Kurds have directly elected a leader of their mostly autonomous region, but voting officials say the poll was largely sound.
Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) said the preliminary results would come on Monday evening, according to a statement from the government's media center.
They are not expected to upset the dominance of the region's two powerful political parties or end a feud between minority Kurds and the Arab-led government in Baghdad over disputed land and control of vast oil resources.
The ruling parties -- the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP), led by Kurdish President Masoud Barzani, and the Democratic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd -- ran jointly against alliances of smaller parties.
While Barzani looked certain to easily defeat five rivals in the election, the vote marked a shift for Kurdistan, which critics says stifles political dissent, in the novel challenge presented by the opposition Change list.
Officials from Change, headed by Noshirwan Mustafa, a former PUK leader, said Kurdish authorities had executed a "premeditated plan to change the results for its own benefit."
"A campaign of violations began on orders of the officials on the ground of the party in authority in all towns," another opposition list, Reform and Services, said of the voting.
The IHEC said after polls closed that voting was largely free of violations. On Sunday, IHEC officials said the commission was studying over 300 complaints, but noted that the complaints were not likely to sway the overall outcome.
Opposition parties have said voters were allowed to cast ballots without identification, polling stations were blocked to opposition observers and campaigning took place after deadline.
IHEC said Barzani had broken a campaign deadline rule by speaking to reporters after voting.
"This is not important, it was a very simple matter and has no effect on the elections," said the IHEC's Qasim al-Sachet.
SOUR GRAPES?
Jabbar Yawar, a senior KDP member, dismissed complaints of poll irregularities. "We reject this. If there were violations, then they can submit an official complaint," he said.
Abdilselam Berwari, head of the KDP Political Studies Center, said the complaints were a case of sour grapes. Continued...
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