Iraqi parliament changes back referendum rules-UN

reuters: Iraq's parliament reversed itself on Wednesday over rules for a forthcoming constitutional referendum, interpreting wording in a way that should make the October 15 ballot fairer, the assembly's acting chairman said.

"A resolution was passed that the word 'voters' ... was (to mean) voters who are registered in the voter lists and who exercise that right, i.e. that they vote in the referendum," deputy speaker Hussain al-Shahristani told reporters.

"They have reversed their decision as we had hoped they would," Said Arikat, a U.N. spokesman in Baghdad, said. Read more