The positions of rejecting the preliminary results of the legislative elections that took place in Iraq recently, which were led by the Sadrist movement, are still continuing, as Abu Ali Al-Askari - the security official of the "Hezbollah Brigades" in Iraq - accused Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi of interfering in the process of changing the preliminary results of the legislative elections .
Al-Askari called on the judges supervising the elections to expose what he called "scandals of technical problems" in a number of devices used to transmit and count voters' votes.
The statement added that what happened was a change in the number of seats obtained by some parties and adding them to others.
Al-Askari added - in the statement - "If they (he means the honorable judges) do not have the courage to do so, it will be revealed and officials and experts from the specialists in the commission will be named."
This comes at a time when several Iraqi political blocs and parties have announced their rejection of the results of the parliamentary elections announced by the Independent High Electoral Commission.
Where the Coordination Framework Group for a number of the most prominent Shiite political parties in Iraq said that the chaos, confusion and inaccuracy that appeared in the past two days in presenting facts reinforces their position of mistrust towards the Electoral Commission.
The group added in a statement that what is happening calls for it to reiterate its rejection of the announced results, and that proceeding with them threatens to endanger civil peace.
The Coordination Framework Group had announced its appeal against the preliminary results of the legislative elections, and said that it would take all available measures to prevent voter tampering.
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- Muqtada al-Sayyid Muhammad al-Sadr (@Mu_AlSadr) October 13, 2021
On the other hand, the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, renewed his call for self-restraint and prioritizing public interests over private interests.
Al-Sadr also called on the parties objecting to the preliminary results of the elections to show a patriotic spirit and not to resort to unimaginable consequences, as he put it.
Al-Sadr, whose current, according to the preliminary results, won 73 seats - in a tweet - stressed that it is not important who will be the winner, but rather the important thing is to help the Iraqi people in terms of service and security.
He pointed out that the political differences over the ballot boxes, the delay in announcing the results, and the pressure on the Electoral Commission will be the first negative results that will harm the people, not the political blocs.
Manual sort
The Electoral Commission in Iraq said that it had started the manual counting of ballot boxes in the capital, Baghdad, on which complaints were registered or the results of which did not reach the commission's headquarters.
The Director of Procedures and Training at the Commission, Daoud Salman, explained that the process of counting and sorting the problematic funds throughout Iraq will end within a week.