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Iraqi Kurdistan presidential elections

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

The Iraqi Kurdistan presidential elections will take place on 25 July 2009, coinciding with the Iraqi Kurdistan parliamentary elections of 2009. A total of 2.5 million citizens of Iraqi Kurdistan are eligible to vote for the parliamentary and presidential elections. It is the first time that the president of Iraqi Kurdistan will be chosen directly through popular votes. People currently living outside Iraqi Kurdistan will not be allowed to vote.

Like the parliamentary elections, campaigning for the elections officially started on 22 June 2009 and will be stopped 48 hours before voting starts The elections will be held with 84 registration centers and 5,403 polling stations in Kurdistan and 5 polling stations in Baghdad. Below are the candidates listed with their lot number. The Iraqi Kurdistan presidential elections will take place on 25 July 2009, coinciding with the Iraqi Kurdistan parliamentary elections of 2009. A total of 2.5 million citizens of Iraqi Kurdistan are eligible to vote for the parliamentary and presidential elections. It is the first time that the president of Iraqi Kurdistan will be chosen directly through popular votes. People currently living outside Iraqi Kurdistan will not be allowed to vote.
Like the parliamentary elections, campaigning for the elections officially started on 22 June 2009 and will be stopped 48 hours before voting starts The elections will be held with 84 registration centers and 5,403 polling stations in Kurdistan and 5 polling stations in Baghdad. Below are the candidates listed with their lot number.

Iraqi Kurds to vote Saturday

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Voters in Kurdistan in northern Iraq go to the polls on Saturday in a double election, to choose a new parliament and a president for their autonomous region.

The elections have been the most vibrant and exciting since 1992, when the Kurds held their first-ever free polls after winning de facto autonomy.

That first election saw a massive turnout, with huge crowds of Kurds besieging the polling stations until after midnight, thrilled by the novelty of choosing their own leaders by ballot.

Afghan election officially postponed till August 2009

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Afghan presidential election due to be held in spring 2009 has been officially postponed till Aug. 20

Iranian opposition leader unveils new political group

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

The main opposition leader in Iran, Mir Hossein Mousavi, has confirmed plans to form a new broad-based political front.

Writing on his website, he said the front would have a charter and would give the opposition a legal framework.

Mr Mousavi was the leading reformist candidate in the disputed presidential elections in Iran on 12 June.

Meanwhile, his wife has confirmed that her brother was among those detained during protests against the presidential election.

Mr Mousavi has made it clear that the new front will not be a substitute for popular protest, but a way of giving the Green movement – as it has become known – a legal political framework.