Iraq Election Campaign Begins
February 12, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under Breaking News
Iraq Election Campaign Begins, Official campaigning for Iraq’s March 7 general election started on Friday in a tense atmosphere overshadowed by angry demands from provincial leaders that workers linked to Saddam Hussein be fired.
An integrity and accountability committee announced late Thursday that 28 of 177 candidates banned from the vote for alleged Baathist links would be allowed to stand after all, a small proportion of more than 500 originally blacklisted.
Political party activists pasted up posters across Baghdad, adding to those that had been placed illegally at prominent billboard sites across the capital in recent weeks in an attempt to steal a march on election rivals.
The run-up to the campaign has for weeks been dominated by the legacy of executed dictator Saddam and his Sunni Arab former elite which continues to loom large, almost seven years after he was ousted in a US-led invasion.
Iraq Election Campaign Begins was first posted on February 12, 2010 at 5:12 pm.
Election Campaign Ends in Gilgit-Baltistan
PAKISTAN: Election Campaign Ends in Gilgit-Baltistan, The election campaign in Gilgit-Baltistan has ended and the polling for 23 out of 24 seats of the legislative assembly will be held on November 12.
Polling will begin at 8am and will continue without a break till 4pm tomorrow. Election in constituency 19 will not be held as MQM candidate died. Some 1022 polling stations have been established in 6 districts, 153 have been declared sensitive while 119 extremely sensitive. Governor Gilgit-Baltistan Qamar Zaman Kaira said that fool proof security would be ensured during the election.
Election Campaign Ends in Gilgit-Baltistan was first posted on November 11, 2009 at 1:28 pm.
