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Jalal Talabani - Art History Online Reference and Guide Following the Iraqi elections on 30 January, 2005, Talabani was named President of Iraq under the Iraqi Transitional Government by the transitional National Assembly on 6 April. The KDP-PUK joint election slate, the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan, swept the Kurdish National Assembly election, 2005 as well as 77 seats in the Iraqi National Assembly election, 2005. Jalal Talabani (born 1933 in Kelkan) is a prominent Iraqi Kurdish politician, who was named the President of Iraq on April 6, 2005. www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Jalal_Talabani

Distribution of seats in new Iraqi national assembly - Irna Political lists represented in Iraq's 275-seat National Assembly following the announcement of final results from the January 30 election will have seats as follows: The Iraqi election system is one of proportional representation with the whole country being treated as one constituency. The total number of voters was 8,456,266, meaning that 30,750 votes are necessary for each seat in the 275-seat National Assembly. www.irna.ir /irnewtest/en/news/view/menu-236/0502130967184953.htm

Iraqi Elections: Human Rights Concerns (Human Rights Watch, January 23, 2005) On January 30, 2005, Iraqis will vote in three elections: for a Transitional National Assembly, eighteen district councils and, for voters in the three semi-autonomous Kurdish provinces in the north, an Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly. The slates will win seats in the assembly based on the percentage of the national vote they receive, and candidates on the slates will be appointed based on their position on the lists. To date, Iraqi election officials have not provided information about the number of Iraqis registered to vote, in part because voters in Nineveh and al-Anbar provinces are allowed to register and vote on the same day. www.hrw.org /english/docs/2005/01/21/iraq10058_txt.htm

The __earthinc Earlier, I had actually thought that this election would elect the head of the state and other high state functions, similar to the November US presidential election. Moreover, the National Assembly will act as a transitional government, replacing the interim government. It is imperative nevertheless for Iraqi to vote and not cave in to the threat. www-personal.umich.edu /~mnoorsha/2005/01/499-of-iraqi-national-assembly.html

[No title] The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has been designated by the Independent Election Commission of Iraq (IECI) to organize the Out of Country Voting (OCV) for Iraqis living in certain countries outside Iraq for the 2005 Iraqi National Assembly Election. We would be very grateful if you could forward details of these positions to Iraqi friends and colleagues who may be interested in working with the IOM out of country voting programme in the To prepare the monthly payroll of international and national staff and submit to Finance Section for payment; plus handle all HR and payroll related enquiries in relation to international and national staff payrolls; www.ccicoa.org /jobs/jobs.htm

BBC NEWS Middle East Q&A: Iraqi election If the constitution is rejected, there will be a new assembly election by 15 December, and a further year is then allowed for the whole process. The assembly's other main role will be to write a draft constitution by 15 August and submit this to referendum by 15 October. Voters had to prove Iraqi citizenship and be born before 31 December 1986. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3971635.stm

Iraqi Interim Government Candidates for the National Assembly were approved by a government-appointed election commission, thereby ensuring Baathist control over the candidates. The National Assembly's authority was extremely limited and consisted mainly of ratifying laws and decisions made by the executive. The National Assembly will be elected under an electoral system designed to achieve representation of women of at least one-quarter of its members, as well as fair representation of all of Iraq's communities. www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/ig.htm

AllRefer.com - Iraq - The National Assembly in Iraq Iraqi Information Resource During the few weeks each year that the National Assembly is in session, it carries out its legislative duties in tandem with the RCC. According to the law, the National Assembly consists of 250 members elected by secret ballot every four years. Although the assembly has served as a forum for limited public discussion of issues, its actual powers were restricted and ultimate decision-making authority pertaining to legislation continued to reside with the RCC in 1988. reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/iraq/iraq68.html

Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly Information Pass the Law of Administrations of Municipalities, in which the Assembly approved the principle of the election of the heads of Municipalities and their councils. The assembly is elected for a four-year term. Presidium Body, comprising the President, Vice President and the Secretary of the Assembly. kurdistan-parliament.org /info.htm

Iraqi legislative election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Elections to the Kurdistan National Assembly, the 111-member legislature of the Kurdish Autonomous Region, were held on the same day as the federal legislative elections. The members of the National Assembly have been selected from 196 candidate lists, chosen by proportional representation using the Hare quota and the largest remainder method with a threshold of one quota. One challenge to the legitimacy of the election was the low Sunni turnout, which was as low as 2 percent in Anbar province. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iraqi_National_Assembly_election,_2005

January 2005 Iraqi 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 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. 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

IEDs - Iraq Election Discussions The members of the 275-seat newly elected National Assembly walked quietly into the heavily fortified convention center on the west bank of the Tigris River, with little pomp but with a solemnity indicating they understood the gravity, and the immense difficulty, of their duties. The national assembly’s first order of business will be to elect a speaker and vote on a presidential council, including a president and two deputies, who in turn will choose a prime minister to form the next government. The Shiite alliance won 140 seats in the National Assembly, but needs the Kurds&; 75 seats to assemble the two-thirds majority required to elect a president, who will then nominate the prime minister. iraqelect.com

FREE IRAQ: February 2005 These elections were a great victory in the history of Iraq against the terrorists and shows the unity of Iraqi people in the crisis to defeat the enemy,now we must work hard to treat the wounded Iraq and begin the reconsruction because we have much work to do. The primary task of the Assembly is to draft a constitution. This is in keeping with the provisions of the TAL that says the Assembly shall proceed with this task “by encouraging debate on the constitution through regular general public meetings in all parts of Iraq and through the media, and receiving proposals from the citizens of Iraq as it writes the constitution.” saleemtheiraqi.blogspot.com /2005_02_01_saleemtheiraqi_archive.html

State Department Recaps Details of Iraqi Election - US Department of State In addition to the election of a Transitional National Assembly, the Transitional Administrative Law calls for the election of provincial councils and a Kurdistan National Assembly.  These elections will also be held on January 30. The Transitional National Assembly election will be conducted according to a closed list proportional representation system with the entire country considered as a single electoral district. By the end of 2005, the Iraqi people are expected to elect a new national government under a new, permanent constitution. usinfo.state.gov /dhr/Archive/2005/Jan/06-756030.html?chanlid=democracy

Kurdistan: Iraq - Kurds Back Talibani As Next Interim President or Prime Minister :: rojname.com Ballot counting for the National Assembly is continuing, but the Kurdish Unity List is widely expected to win the largest bloc of seats in the new body after the largely Shi´a United Iraqi Alliance. The parties of the Kurdish Unity List that competed in the election for the National Assembly on 30 January met in the northern city of Irbil on Thursday to insist that a Kurd becomes Iraq´s next president or prime minister. The National Assembly will have the power to choose the next Iraqi interim government and oversee the writing of the country´s permanent constitution. www.kurdishdailynews.com /show-all-last-minute-news.php?nuce=34185

CNN.com - How the Iraqi election will work - Jan 27, 2005 If elections proceed on schedule, a boycott by powerful Sunni groups and violence in Sunni-dominated areas of the country likely will keep many Sunnis away from the polls and decrease their level of representation in the National Assembly. The National Assembly also will serve as the parliament of Iraq, with the power to make laws and to elect a president and two deputies from among its members. Iraqi expatriates also are eligible to vote, with the largest group in Iran. www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/01/27/q.and.a

deseretnews.com Iraqi commission certifies election results, allocates assembly seats BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's electoral commission Thursday certified the results of the Jan. 30 elections and allocated 140 National Assembly seats to the United Iraqi Alliance, giving the Shiite-dominated party a majority in the new parliament. Also, gunmen opened fire on patrolling Iraqi National Guardsmen in Hillah, 60 miles south of the capital, sparking a shootout that killed two suspected insurgents and wounded three Guardsmen, Maj. Fatik Iyd said. The assembly's first order of business will be to elect a president and two vice presidents to largely ceremonial positions. deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600112814,00.html

Patriotic Union of Kurdistan - Enpsychlopedia The PUK joined with the KDP and smaller parties to form the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan as an umbrella group contesting the Iraqi National Assembly election, 2005. The regional Kurdish assembly elections showed that the PUK's support lies predominantly in the southern area of Iraqi Kurdistan. This unified Kurdish list gained 25.6% of the vote on the first democratic Iraqi elections on the 31st of January, 2005. www.grohol.com /psypsych/Patriotic_Union_of_Kurdistan

News Release, No. 874 - Iraq Out-of-Country Voting Program: Countries Agree to Host Voting for the Iraqi National Assembly Election Amman, Jordan- Expatriate Iraqis living in eleven countries around the world will now be able to vote in the Out-of-Country Voting (OCV) Program for the Iraqi National Assembly Election in January 2005 after agreements were concluded between the governments of these countries and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Countries Agree to Host Voting for the Iraqi National Assembly Election In consultation with local Iraqis and government officials, offices are being set up and local staff are being trained as registration and polling station committees. www.iom.int /en/archive/pr874_en.shtml

James S. Robbins on Iraqi Election on National Review Online Sunni voters who participate in the Diyala local elections may also decide to cast votes for the national assembly. S unday's election in Iraq was mandated in the " Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period." It will establish the Iraqi transitional government, which will replace the existing Iraqi interim government, and begin phase two of the transition period. Seats in the national assembly are then allocated based on the percentage of the vote gained by each party. www.nationalreview.com /robbins/robbins200501280818.asp

BBC NEWS Middle East Q&A: Iraqi election The assembly's other main role will be to write a draft constitution by 15 August and submit this to referendum by 15 October. If the constitution is rejected, there will be a new assembly election by 15 December, and a further year is then allowed for the whole process. Iraq's landmark election was held on 30 January 2005. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3971635.stm

Latest reports on National Assembly Election in Iraq - Irna Concerning the predicted public turnout in the ongoing National Assembly Election, he told IRNA that it is not easy to foresee the number of voters but that it is hoped that public turnout will be satisfactory. Latest reports on National Assembly Election in Iraq Iraqi election, popular move to establish national sovereignty www.irna.ir /en/news/view/menu-236/0501300770154112.htm

Human Rights Watch - Iraqi Election 2005 (Photo 3) The boxes hold ballots for three elections: the Transitional National Assembly, the Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly and the Arbil Governorate. Human Rights Watch > Middle East > Iraq > Iraqi Election 2005 Human Rights Watch - Iraqi Election 2005 (Photo 3) www.hrw.org /campaigns/iraq/elections/3.htm

Radio Paradise Forums Iraq is going to have 20 different elections on the same day: a countrywide vote for a 275-member National Assembly; an election for a 111-member Kurdistan National Assembly, which will govern the autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq; and elections in each of Iraq's 18 provinces for governorate councils. Another eight Iraqis, all national guardsmen, were shot dead in an attack on their checkpoint outside a provincial broadcasting centre in Buhriz, near Baquba, also north of Baghdad. The Iraqi election commission is asking the government to use schools as polling stations, even though the sites are likely to be attacked by insurgents. www.radioparadise.com /modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=539670&highlight=#539670

Iraq Profile: Government unicameral National Assembly or Mejlis Watani (consisting of 275 members elected by a closed-list, proportional-representation system for the period between the National Assembly election and the formation of a permanent Iraqi government pursuant to the establishment of a permanent constitution) Revolution Day, 17 July (1968); note - this holiday was celebrated under the SADDAM Husayn regime but the Iraqi Interim Government has yet to declare a new national holiday an insurgency against the Iraqi Interim Government and Coalition forces is primarily concentrated in Baghdad and in areas west and north of the capital; the diverse, multigroup insurgency is led principally by Sunni Arabs whose only common denominator is a shared desire to oust the Coalition and end US influence in Iraq www.nationmaster.com /country/iz/Government   (372 words)

IEDs - Iraq Election Discussions Seven weeks after Iraqis defied insurgent threats to take part in the country’s first free election in decades, and as a series of explosions shook the heart of the capital, members of the constitutional assembly convened here today for the first time. The United Iraqi Alliance (UIA), a Shia coalition backed by Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is set to be the leading party in government with 146 seats in the 275-member Iraqi National Assembly. The UIA, which won 140 seats in the January 30 national election, has started negotiations with Iraq’s Kurdish Alliance, which amassed 77 seats in the vote and is pressing demands for a federal state and guarantees on the final status of the disputed northern rich oil city of Kirkuk. iraqelect.com   (372 words)

IEDs - Iraq Election Discussions Seven weeks after Iraqis defied insurgent threats to take part in the country’s first free election in decades, and as a series of explosions shook the heart of the capital, members of the constitutional assembly convened here today for the first time. The United Iraqi Alliance (UIA), a Shia coalition backed by Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is set to be the leading party in government with 146 seats in the 275-member Iraqi National Assembly. The UIA, which won 140 seats in the January 30 national election, has started negotiations with Iraq& Kurdish Alliance, which amassed 77 seats in the vote and is pressing demands for a federal state and guarantees on the final status of the disputed northern rich oil city of Kirkuk. iraqelect.com   (372 words)

Iraqi legislative election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Elections to the Kurdistan National Assembly, the 111-member legislature of the Kurdish Autonomous Region, were held on the same day as the federal legislative elections. The election was monitored from outside of Iraq by the International Mission for Iraqi Elections made up of members from nine nations and headed by Canada. One challenge to the legitimacy of the election was the low Sunni turnout, which was as low as 2 percent in Anbar province. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iraqi_transitional_parliamentary_election   (372 words)

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