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	IRAQI ELECTIONS: January 30, 2005
		The Iraqi people will participate in democratic elections on January 30 for the first time in more than 30 years to elect a Transitional National Assembly, provincial councils for each of Iraq's provinces, and a Kurdistan Regional Government.
		A new government operating under the permanent constitution is expected to be elected by the end of 2005.
		Iraqis living abroad will be able to register and vote in 14 other countries.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/scp/2005/41206.htm (582 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Iraqi elections 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Iraqis are due to go to the polls on 30 January to elect a 275-member National Assembly.
		In his platform, as in most TV commercial of which Iraqi premiere has become a star, Allawi vows to "re-establish peace and security" and promises Iraqis of improving their living conditions, establish a strong and professional army and a capable police force.
		Ironically, Iraqi voters are well aware that the financial corruption is the fruit of a policy that has been adopted by Allawi and his ministers, some who appear on the Iraqi list leaving little hope that if elected, the Iraqi list will bring about real change.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/726/re6.htm (1103 words)

	The Militant - February 14, 2005 -- Iraqi elections marked by relatively high turnout, little bloodshed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One of the unforeseen results of the voting was the extent to which Iraqi Kurds took advantage of the elections to advance their campaign for greater autonomy for the Kurdish region.
		Fareed Ayar, chairman of the Iraqi election commission, and Carlos Valenzuela, the United Nations election advisor in the country, said voting was higher than expected in Babil, Anbar, Diyala, and Nineveh provinces.
		John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, downplayed the importance of the impact of the Iraqi elections.
	www.themilitant.com /2005/6906/690602.html (1965 words)

	The January 30th Iraqi Elections
		This election is an important milestone and proof that Iraqis want to exercise their democratic rights, even under very difficult conditions.
		Elections based on this constitution are then to be held in December 2005 to choose a constitutional Iraqi government.
		By the end of 2005, the Iraqi people are expected to elect a new national government under a new, permanent constitution.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/rls/41199.htm (800 words)

	CNN.com - Polls open in historic Iraqi election - Dec 14, 2005
		Some members of the military seemed to be embracing the election, Reuters reported, even disagreeing with their commander on the choice for prime minister.
		Iraqi President Jalal Talabani called on his nation Wednesday to make election day "a national celebration and an historic day for national unity and a victory over terrorism." (A gallery of the Iraqi elections)
		Election eve was marred by violence when a mob attacked the Nasiriya office of Allawi's Iraqi National Accord party, according to the governor of Thiqar province, south of Baghdad.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/12/14/iraq.elections/index.html (967 words)

	Iraqi legislative election, December 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iraqis in the predominantly Sunni city of Husaybah, wait in lines to vote, during the national election, December 15.
		The nationwide vote of the previous election meant that the low voter turnout among Sunni Arabs was overwhelmed by the high turnout of the Arab Shi'ites and the mostly Sunni Kurds.
		Iraqi National Dialogue Front (#667) - A mainly Sunni coalition, unlike the accord it is avowedly secular and opposed to the new constitution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/December_2005_Iraqi_elections (2139 words)

	January 2005 Iraqi Elections
		The independent Iraqi satellite television station, al-Sharqiyya was also instrumental in encouraging the Iraqis to vote featuring both commercials and interviews among average Iraqis that stress the importance of voting, as well as features with prominent figures involved in the elections.
		According to the interim Iraqi elections law the percentage of women's representation in the National Assembly must not be less than 25 percent.
		The writer emphasizes that U.S. interference in the elections is likely because, "The United States and the West in general work solely for their own interests, disregarding other peoples' interests." He argues that the Bush administration will push ahead the elections to prove the invasion of Iraq was a success.
	meria.idc.ac.il /news/2005/05news1.html (7163 words)

	democracyarsenal.org: Iraqi Elections: 10 Key Things to Look Out for During and After
		We all know this week's elections for a permanent Iraqi parliament are important, but what tea leaves are worth focusing on to determine whether this will be a watershed for democracy, another halting and ambivalent step in Iraq's tortured transition, or the beginning of the end of Iraq as a unitary state.
		If the elections go more or less as planned (and there's every sign they will), the Administration will tout the process as a major victory for its strategy, very likely trying to divert attention away from what's likely to be an ambiguous outcome at best.
		So one way for the iraqi government to gain legitimacy is to schedule an early withdrawal for US forces and to declare a new election as soon as they are gone, a provably fair election.
	www.democracyarsenal.org /2005/12/iraqi_elections.html (1683 words)

	IRC :: Iraqi Elections 2005
		The assembly is expected to be elected on January 30, 2005 and to terminate on December 31, 2004 or June 30, 2005 in case of an extension in preparing the constitution.
		The election system was established with in the frame of the congressional limits of the Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period (March 2004) which determined a 25% representation for women in the national assembly.
		The purpose of democratic election is to allow the voters to elect the stream that represents their social believe, political believe and interest the closest.
	www.irc-co.com /elections/en/faq.asp (1297 words)

	Iraqi Elections - January 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		An alliance of Shia groups won the most votes in Iraq's 30 January election, but the percentage it received - 47.6% - was lower than many expected, according to the final vote tally released on Sunday.
		Shi'ites may have won the lion's share of the vote in Iraq's elections but the main alliance will still have to find new allies if it wants a majority in the new parliament and to secure passage of a new constitution.
		Expatriate Iraqis living in fourteen countries around the world will now be able to vote in Iraq’s Transitional National Assembly Election in January 2005, after the final three agreements were concluded between the governments of Syria, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates and the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
	www.caabu.org /campaigns/iraqi-elections-2005.html (901 words)

	FairVote - Analysis of Iraqi Elections
		According to Reuters, Iraq's December 2005 parliamentary elections will be contested by 230 parties and 21 coalitions, all vying for seats in the the first full-term, four-year parliament since the beginning of the 2003 war in Iraq.
		An election system that would have excluded minority groups such as the Kurds or the Sunni could have destabilized the country, potentially even leading to civil war.
		Moreover, the United Iraqi Alliance, although they actually won less than half of the popular vote, would end up with more than two thirds of the seats: a super-majority which would allow them to control who was elected to the executive without any input from any of the other groups.
	fairvote.org /?page=513 (1857 words)

	Against The Grain
		Iraqi Election Watch provides inside information from Iraq on the historic Jan. 30 elections compiled by FDD staff and fellows.
		Iraqi Media Excerpts from Iraqi news sources on developments related to the election.
		The AP reports that "[t]his is the first time she has participated in an Iraqi election" (see other AP report).
	www.ratzingerfanclub.com /blog/2005/01/iraqi-elections-ongoing-roundup-of.html (3153 words)

	IMIE - International Mission for Iraqi Elections - Home
		The International Mission for Iraqi Elections (IMIE) was established on December 20, 2004, as a result of the Iraq Election Monitoring Forum (Ottawa, December 18–20, 2004).
		The experience obtained during the January 30 elections will be used to plan more extensive involvement for the October 2005 referendum and the national elections on December 15, 2005.
		Interim assessment report of the January 30, 2005, elections published on January 30, 2005.
	www.imie.ca (414 words)

	DefendAmerica - Iraq Elections 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		NEW CAROLLTON, Md., Jan. 28, 2005 — Iraqi citizens, many who fled their native country for the United States to escape Saddam Hussein's brutality, came here today to take part in something they never thought they'd live to see: Iraq's first free elections in more than six decades.
		WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2005 — Iraqis are planning and implementing their own elections Jan. 30, and American and other coalition forces will operate only in support roles, a senior U.S. officer explained Jan. 27.
		WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2005 — The interim Iraqi government is taking active steps to reduce the likelihood of violence on election day while encouraging Iraqis to vote, Iraq's minister of state for national security told Pentagon reporters today during a videoconference from Baghdad.
	www.defendamerica.mil /specials/2005/IraqElection/index.html (427 words)

	CNN.com - U.N. envoy: Iraq elections a 'success' - Dec 16, 2005
		Nasser Abadi, said, however, that Iraqis have been "dreaming" about such an electoral process, and he praised the performance of Iraqi security forces for what he considered smooth elections.
		Expected to fare particularly well in the election are the ruling coalitions during the transitional period -- the Shiite-led United Iraqi Alliance and the Kurdish bloc.
		On election eve in Ramadi, a bomb killed a U.S. Marine assigned to the 2nd Marine Logistics Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/12/16/iraq.elections/index.html (720 words)

	Kurdo's World
		Iraqi election: Kurdistan alliance list is on top of EU countries
		An election official came on a popular radio and said we have sent out ballot papers for every single voter to the polling stations.
		A guy eating an apple and a few election officials (women and men) were dancing on the other side to some loud Kurdish dance music)...they told me voting is over...My friend told them "Look it is 3.30...voting is until 5.."...they told him "oh don't worry..we voted for you"..
	kurdo.blogspot.com /2005/12/iraqi-elections-in-kurdistan-because.html (478 words)

	Iraq's Lost Election
		In the run-up to the January 30 election in Iraq, the prospects for a fair and credible outcome have steadily diminished.
		Even if the victors in the election are unusually magnanimous in their treatment of the Sunnis and far-sighted in their vision for the country, the occupation will remain a rallying cry for insurgent forces and thus an obstacle to national unity.
		We recognize that further violence and internal fighting among Iraqis may follow, but to believe that a continuing US military presence can prevent this is naïve or disingenuous; it will, rather, contribute to the instability.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20050207/editors (738 words)

	U.S. Department of Defense Official Website
		ARABIAN GULF REGION, Feb. 10, 2005 – Terrorists operating in Iraq have received a blow to their credibility, based on successful Iraqi elections and coupled with an inability to interject their agenda into U.S. elections, according to a senior military officer in the region today.
		Iraqi voters have responded to the "challenge for democracy and freedom," just as African-Americans did "to be who we are today and be able to make the contributions that we make each and every day to this great country," said Army Col. Thomas W. Williams, garrison commander at Fort Belvoir, Va. Story
		WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2005 - The general in charge of coalition forces in Iraq took to the airwaves Feb. 2 to thank troops in the country for their work in the success of Iraq's Jan. 30 national assembly election.
	www.defenselink.mil /home/features/2005/IraqElections (669 words)

	The New Yorker : fact : content
		The January 30th election in Iraq was publicly perceived as a political triumph for George W. Bush and a vindication of his decision to overturn the regime of Saddam Hussein.
		The obstacles to a free election, in a country with shallow democratic roots, suffering from years of dictatorship, a foreign invasion, and an insurgency, were immense.
		A European election expert who was involved in planning the Iraqi election recalled that Warrick “was always negative about the Shiites and their ties to the Iranians.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content/articles/050725fa_fact (4473 words)

	Iraqi Letters: Iraqi Elections II
		Iraqi Elections II Bremer’s appointed Iraq Governing Council set the tone, defined the major players in the political arena and defined the rules of the game through the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL).
		Iraqi nationalists do not want Americans to be in Iraq and Iran does, but the solution to that dispute can't be to ally with the Americans.
		The committees consist of 15 individuals handpicked by the Iraqi Governing Council as well as by provincial and local councils--each of which, in turn, were hand-picked by the U.S. The local "notables" chosen to participate in the caucuses would then agree on members of a Transitional Assembly, which, in turn, would appoint the new government.
	iraquna.blogspot.com /2005/12/iraqi-elections-ii.html (9380 words)

	Iraqi Elections 2005 Zinda Special
		If a new constitution is agreed to additional elections are then supposed to be held no later than December 2005.
		There will also be elections to 18 provincial assemblies as well as to the autonomous Kurdish parliament in the north.
		Seats will then be allocated on the basis of proportional representation, which means that each party will get the same proportion of seats in the assembly as it gets in the popular vote.
	www.zindamagazine.com /Iraq05elect/index_elect05.htm (322 words)

	BY TOPIC: Iraqi Elections (30th January 2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The interim Iraqi government chose 30 January 2005 as the date for its first nationwide election since the fall of Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime.
		The elections include votes for 18 provincial assemblies, and the autonomous Kurdish parliament in the north.
		Iraqis discuss voting, or not, in elections held amidst chaos, Dahr Jamail and Brian Dominick (17 January 2005)
	electroniciraq.net /news/1808.shtml (853 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Iraqi elections 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Iraqi elections asserted the preeminence of the united Shia groups and put an end to the ambitions of a number of political claimants.
		Caught between a political process of questionable legitimacy and a dire security situation, Iraqis go to the polls on Sunday.
		As the elections scheduled for 30 January draw closer it is fear, not optimism, that has come to determine how Iraqis think and behave, writes Aziz Jabour
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/iraq.htm (384 words)

	U.S. Department of Defense Official Website - Special Coverage of the Dec. 15, 2005 Iraq Parliamentary Election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BAGHDAD, Dec. 16, 2005 – Hundreds of thousands of Baghdad residents were able to vote mainly because of the security at polling stations provided by Iraqi security forces.
		WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2005 – Sunni voter turnout in today's Iraqi election appeared much greater than it was during the Oct. 15 constitutional referendum, the top U.S. military officer in Iraq said today.
		SADR CITY, Iraq, Dec. 15, 2005 – Election day in Sadr City was a resounding success, with no incidents in the crowded area of 2.6 million people, 3rd Infantry Division officials said.
	www.defenselink.mil /home/features/2005/IraqElection_Dec (524 words)

	Preparing for Iraqi Elections - 2
		Iraq is preparing for elections on January 30, 2005.
		Airport arrival of ballots to be used in January 30, 2005 Iraqi election.
		Ballot to be used for Iraqi elections to be held later in 2005.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/pix/b/nea/iraq/40941.htm (302 words)

	Informed Comment
		My hunch is that the Sunnis now leading are only gradually understanding the reality of their position, and that, when they focus on Kirkuk and the Kirkuk field, they may understand the power and wisdom behind an equivalent of SCIRI’s proposed Southern Regional Government.
		This is the main chance for the Iraqi Shia, and everyone from Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani down knows it.
		I do not have the text of the Pact of Honor, but it is reported in effect that a Southern Regional Government is to be “postponed.” Perhaps until Kirkuk is resolved or in connection therewith.
	www.juancole.com /2005/12/iraqi-elections-post-election.html (956 words)

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