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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. 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Polls opened at 8 a.m. (1 a.m. EST) in the largely autonomous northern region, and will close at 6 p.m. (11 a.m. EST), after which ballots will be flown to Baghdad for tallying. The official count is expected to take 2-3 days with no challenges. The people of the relatively peaceful enclave will elect a president directly this time, unlike 2005 polls that selected a parliament alone, and former guerrilla leader Barzani looks certain to defeat his five competitors. Barzani's Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's Democratic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), the region's most powerful parties, will run for seats on a joint list against 23 alliances of smaller parties. As the poll drew near, Barzani and other Kurdish leaders churned out fiery rhetoric about claims to territories they dispute with Baghdad's Arab-led government. Diplomats see the row over oil-producing Kirkuk and other disputed areas as a major threat to Iraq's long-term stability as sectarian violence fades, but many Kurds support Barzani's hardline approach against Baghdad, from where Saddam Hussein launched deadly attacks against Kurds in the 1980s. "Kirkuk is the most important thing to Kurds," said Yunis Mohammed Qader, 39, outside the sweltering oven of his pizza takeaway. "Only Barzani and the KDP-PUK can bring it back." The Kurd-Arab row has held up critical energy legislation in the national parliament and overshadows government efforts to secure foreign investment in the important oil sector. Speaking to reporters after voting, Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, the president's nephew, signaled that the Kurd leader might take a different tack after the elections. "We hope after the election we will be able to sit down at the negotiating table with Baghdad and resolve the issue of Kirkuk ... We Kurds are willing to show flexibility." Although Kurds have long dreamed of their own state and such rallying cries used to define Kurdish politics, many Kurds now worry more about problems closer to home, like graft. ALL CHANGE? Critics of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) accuse it of widespread official corruption, abuses by security forces, media intimidation and an atmosphere that stifles dissent. "They feed on our money. They point to buildings and say it's development, but do you think most Kurds can go in that hotel?," bar worker Haider Abdul said of Kurdish leaders, pointing at a fancy Arbil hotel in the distance. An alliance hoping to capitalize on disenchantment is the Change list, run by independent candidate Noshwan Mustafa. Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! Facebook LinkedIn Next Article: Ousted Zelaya sets foot back in Honduras, briefly Also on Reuters Blog: Who acted stupidly, the police or the president? 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