Iraq Election: Stolen Ballot Boxes, Stuffing Them With Their Own Papers

KURDISH parties moved into second place in Iraq’s election count yesterday, strengthening their demands for a senior position in the council that will select the prime minister.
The results were undermined by revelations of vote-rigging and intimidation in the city of Mosul, where masked gunmen had burst into polling stations and stolen ballot boxes, stuffing them with their own papers.

In figures released from the Kurdish north, the coalition that includes Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and Massoud Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party swept their homeland, scoring 95 per cent in Dohuk province and 91 per cent in Sulaimaniya.

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