Voting has started in Iraq for provincial council elections
| Voting areas in the elections of Iraqi provincial councils, with the exception of the Kurdistan region, were opened to those eligible to vote from the first hours of this morning. |
According to the international group Tasnim news agency, voting for provincial council elections across Iraq The exception of the Kurdistan Region began today, Monday.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia Al-Sudani, former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and head of the Government of Law coalition, former Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and Seyyed Ammar Hakim, leader of the National Wisdom Movement, among other officials and There were Iraqi politicians who cast their votes in the first hour of the election.
On Saturday of this week, a special vote was held for Iraqi security and military forces. It was 67 percent. According to Middle East News, before that, the Chief of Staff of the Iraqi Army emphasized the full readiness of the country’s military forces to maintain the security of the elections. It has a population of 43 million people, the provincial councils have important powers and are responsible for monitoring the budget of the health, transportation and education sectors.
According to the Iraqi constitution, these councils have extensive powers. And as the legislative and supervisory authority in each province, they have the right to issue local laws so that based on the principle of administrative decentralization, they can manage the affairs of the province without conflicting with the constitution and laws of the federal government.
The people of Iraq will go to the polls for the first time since 2013 and for the third time after the fall of the Baath regime in 2003, to participate in the provincial council elections.
These elections include 15 The province is one of the 18 provinces of Iraq, and 3 provinces of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which are subordinate to the state system of the region, are not included in this election.
Before this, the provincial council elections were held in Iraq in 2009, in the year 2018 and it was supposed to be held at the same time as the parliamentary elections, but it was postponed many times.
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