The Iraqi Electoral Commission announced that it is not responsible for the announced preliminary results of the legislative elections, especially the number of seats won by the electoral alliances, in light of the rejection of a number of political and armed forces of the results that were topped by the Sadrist movement.
The Iraqi News Agency, quoting the commission, added that the counting and sorting operations are still ongoing and will be completed within the next two days.
The Commission indicated that the stations whose votes have not been counted so far may make a change in the announced results.
Director of Al Jazeera's office in Baghdad, Walid Ibrahim, said that the High Commission's statements did not dispel the fears of those objecting to the results. Ibrahim indicated that the Commission's procedures are not clear, such as determining the period for submitting appeals;
And whether it starts after the announcement of the preliminary results that were issued last Monday and is supposed to end yesterday, Thursday, or it continues until the final announcement of the results.
He also explained that the Commission announced 94% of the results, while the remaining 6% is not expected to make a major change, but the Commission said that it is not responsible for the number of seats that each coalition won, and that the remaining votes may contribute to changing the final results.
According to the preliminary results published by the official news agency, the Sadrist bloc topped the results with 73 seats, while the "Progress" bloc led by dissolved Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi won 38 seats, and the "State of Law" bloc led by former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki came in third place with 37. Seats, while the "Al-Fateh Alliance" led by Hadi Al-Amiri declined and won only 14 seats, according to preliminary results, after it came in second place with 48 seats in the previous elections in 2018.
The "Azm" electoral alliance - led by Khamis al-Khanjar - called on the Iraqi Electoral Commission to urgently address what it described as the indicators that accompanied the announcement of the preliminary results.
A statement by the coalition called on the commission to provide sufficient explanations about the delay in counting the votes of thousands of stations.
The coalition called on all parties to give priority to the national interest and to re-count and hand-sort all stations.
He stressed that this process should be conducted in the presence of agents of political entities and international observers.
constant controversy
The controversy continues over the results of the parliamentary elections. The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, announced the formation of a negotiating committee to discuss the possibility of forming alliances to form the next government.
On the other hand, Iyad Allawi - the leader of the Civil National Front and former Iraqi Prime Minister - told Al Jazeera that there was no suitable environment for the elections because of what he called "uncontrolled weapons" and "the hegemony of sectarianism and political money."
The candidates of the "National State Coalition Forces in Iraq" accused the Electoral Commission of being in contradiction, according to the figures it issued.
Abu Ali al-Askari, the security official for the "Hezbollah Brigades" in Iraq, also accused Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi of interfering in changing the preliminary results of the legislative elections.
In a statement, 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.
He stated that what happened was a change in the number of seats obtained by some parties, and their addition to others.
And the coordination framework group for a number of the most prominent Shiite political parties in Iraq - including the Al-Fateh Alliance - said that what appeared in the past two days of chaos, confusion and inaccuracy in presenting the facts reinforces their position of distrust in the Electoral Commission.
Al-Kazemi warns
Caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi warned - during a cabinet session - against "attempting to deviate from the legal contexts in dealing with the election results," adding that every entity or personality has the right to file appeals against the preliminary results, and the Electoral Commission should follow up on the appeals in all seriousness.
Al-Kazemi said that his government fulfilled its promise to hold the elections on time, and without recording any security or legal breaches, noting that it is the first time that elections are held without imposing a curfew, and without the prime minister running for office.
Following the announcement of the preliminary results of the elections - last Monday - the Al-Fateh Alliance (which includes the Popular Mobilization factions), the National Coalition, the State of Law coalition, the Wisdom Movement, and the Victory Alliance, all of which are Shiite forces, in addition to the (Sunni) Islamic Party;
Election results.
The head of the victory coalition and former Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called on the Electoral Commission to resolve the voting problems in the country, which confused the general situation.
"What is more important than electoral gain and loss is peace and national unity, and the integrity and righteousness of the political system that represents the people," he said in a statement.