Iraq entered the election silence

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, the elections of Iraqi governorship councils will be held on Monday next week (Azar 27) after 10 years, an election that has a significant impact on the political situation of this country.

According to the official news agency of Iraq (WAA), in the meantime, the High Commissioner of Elections of Iraq announced today (Friday) the beginning of the election silence and announced that the candidates do not have the right to advertise starting this morning.

According to this main electoral institution of Iraq, the special voting (for the security forces) will be held tomorrow, and the central operation room was formed yesterday to monitor the candidates’ adherence to electoral silence.

During the period of electoral silence, candidates should work to encourage people to vote and “strengthen democracy”. The province (except for the three provinces of Kurdistan region) becomes The last time the elections of the Iraqi governorship councils were held in 2009, and in 2018, the governorship elections were supposed to be held simultaneously with the parliamentary elections, which were postponed.

According to the Iraqi constitution, the governorship councils They have a wide range, to the extent that they have the right to issue local laws, and like a small government, they are responsible for the affairs of the province and the responsibility of monitoring the budget of the health, transportation and education sectors.

Elections It will be held while one of the main demands of the October 2019 protests was the dissolution of the governorate councils and the holding of elections. According to protest groups, the governorate councils have suffered massive corruption due to the failure to hold elections.

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