The Election in Iraq
On May 12TH2018 Iraq will have its election for the Iraqi parliament from which the government will emerge. However almost nearly all the competing parties and coalitions are corrupted. They failed for the last 15 years to prevent corruption and many of them were involved in it. On the other hand almost all of them are based on sectarian agendas of Sunni or Shiah or Kurds or Arabs etc.
Almost all services in Iraq remained very damaged and an example for that is the electricity issue which remained without solution for 15 years. The selection of the top minsters were dependent on shares between the parties all of them. There is no actual oppositions parties as all of them wanted to be in the government.
It is therefore the election in Iraq is one of the worst in the world as it is based on sectarian shares. However the highest religious authority of Sayed Ali Sistani presented a declaration about such issues and asked the people to reject those who failed and those who corrupts in their jobs especially those who were seen in the government and failed. The people respect the religious authority and same calls came from the Sunni religious authorities. So it remains to see what the people will decide if there is no forgery of the results. This time they used new electronic systems for election and counting which may give the results quickly.
We will wait and see on 12 may 2018.
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