The start of voting for Iraqi elections for security forces

According to the report of the international group of Fars news agency, the voting of security and military forces in the elections of Iraqi provincial councils started this morning, and more than one million and 2393 Iraqi security and military forces will go to the polls. IDPs living in the camps also cast their votes today. The general voting will be on Monday.

According to Al-Sumaria News website, 565 special voting centers for security and military forces are planned in Iraqi provinces, and also 35 voting centers for 48,260 eligible people. The residents of the camps are considered.

This election, which is accompanied by the boycott of the Sadr movement, includes 15 provinces (except for the three provinces of the Kurdistan Region). 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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