Iraq: Sunni electoral list complains of fraud

aki: The Sunni electoral list, the 'Iraqi Consensus Front', has appealed to the electoral commission to recount the votes in the 15 December elections. During a news conference held on Tuesday in Baghdad, the leaders of the different parties which make up the Sunni alliance, Dafir al-Aani, Adnan al-Duleimi and Arfan al-Hashimi, gave the media a long list of examples of electoral fraud which they said occurred in numerous cities around the country and favoured the Shiite lists.

The Sunni list therefore asked the electoral commission to recount the votes, saying it considered the results emerging form various cities around Iraq wrong. "We are the second most voted for list in these elections after the Shiite one," al-Aani said, "but this is not emerging in the results and for this reason we cannot consider any post-electoral alliance because we do not recognise the results which are being presented by the electoral commission." Read more