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Monday, April 05, 2004

Iraqi polls bring secular success

Guardian
Local Government Elections in Iraq
...The poll was the latest in a series which this overwhelmingly Shia province has held in the past six weeks, and the results have been surprising. Seventeen towns have voted, and in almost every case secular independents and representatives of non-religious parties did better than the Islamists.…

...“This is a free election,” said Jawad Khadum, a teacher in Tar. “We want more of them, for example in our teachers’ union and for the mayor.”

Like many professionals, he was worried by the way some religious parties had been throwing their weight around, trying to close shops which sell alcohol and pressing every woman to wear a veil. He saw the vote as a chance to stop this, he said...
This is part of the reason for Sadr's uprising. The radical Shia clerics have come to realize that if elections come to pass they will lose, and lose in a big and very embarrassing way.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/
0,3604,1185644,00.html
Posted by: Zayphar / 4/05/2004 01:53:00 PM
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