A candidate in Nineveh pays money equivalent to a parliament's salary for 40 years to buy voter card

[size=52]A candidate in Nineveh pays money equivalent to a parliament's salary for 40 years to buy voter cards![/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]A candidate in Mosul pays sums equivalent to a parliament's salary for 10 sessions of the House of Representatives, in return for obtaining the votes of the voters. Candidates in the city force members of the “crowd” to bring a certain number of voter cards and are not subject to the penalty of expulsion. On the other hand, another candidate is setting up a “fake camp” in southeast Mosul, to recruit young people into the “crowd” in exchange for their votes.[/size]
[size=45]There are dozens of factions affiliated with the popular and tribal mobilization in Mosul and the towns of Nineveh Governorate.[/size]
[size=45]Candidates in Nineveh divide the amounts for purchasing voter cards into two payments, to be paid before and after the elections, and one candidate has so far collected more than 20,000 cards.[/size]
[size=45]The number of currents participating in the legislative elections in Nineveh is close to the 200-block, coalition and individual barrier. On the other hand, the number of candidates is more than 400, competing in 8 constituencies, to fill the 34 seats allocated to the governorate.[/size]
[size=45]According to the names of the candidates, Nineveh will replace about a third of the parliamentarians representing the province, as only 12 deputies decided not to run again.[/size]
[size=45]It appears from the lists that more than 10 former representatives of Nineveh, and 7 former officials, including former governors, in addition to leaders of armed factions, compete.[/size]
[size=45]buy cards[/size]
[size=45]An informed source in Nineveh confirmed that one of the candidates in one of the governorate’s cities, who is a current MP, had collected “22 thousand election cards.”[/size]
[size=45]The candidate, according to the source, will return those cards to their original owners at least 5 days before the polling day, provided that they attend the voting day with the cards.[/size]
[size=45]The source, who asked not to be named, confirms to (Al-Mada) that "the candidate did not collect these cards for free, as he paid about 6 million dollars (about 9 billion Iraqis), at 300 dollars per card."[/size]
[size=45]If the candidate wins, he will receive a salary of about 7 million dinars per month, while one electoral cycle extends for four years.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Mada has reservations about mentioning the name of the candidate who belongs to one of the alliances led by a prominent Shiite figure, and who recently formed a new alliance.[/size]
[size=45]On Tuesday, the Electoral Commission revealed the exclusion of two candidates for the elections, with the registration of 100 electoral violations, which it said it had taken action on.[/size]
[size=45]In the same Shiite alliance, another candidate who owns a crowd in Nineveh of about 2,000 members, forces them to collect at least 5 electoral cards.[/size]
[size=45]The source says that "the candidate (the term reserves not to mention his name) threatened the members of the crowd with expulsion from the faction if each element did not bring the required number of cards."[/size]
[size=45]Payment in installments[/size]
[size=45]In the center of Mosul, two candidates, one of whom was a former city executive, buy voter cards at prices ranging from 300,000 to 350,000.[/size]
[size=45]The source indicates that the candidate, the former official, gives 200 to the card holder, “100 dollars before the vote and 100 dollars afterwards.”[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, the second, a businessman, gives the card seller 150,000 before voting and another 200,000 after voting.[/size]
[size=45]According to the source, the last candidate "deceives the one who sold him the ticket, that he will be able to find out whether he voted for him or not by entering the main election calculator!"[/size]
[size=45]And last Saturday, the commission decided to exclude the candidate, Ashwaq Al-Ghuriri, and confirmed withholding the votes that she would get in the elections because it was proven that she had purchased voter cards in her favour.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Ghurairi is a candidate for Mahmoudiyah, south of Baghdad, within the Azm coalition headed by Khamis al-Khanjar. The Commission decided earlier to withdraw the approval of any candidate or party that is officially proven to have obtained voter cards by illegal means, as well as referring him to the judiciary.[/size]
[size=45]And she stated in a statement that "any employee of the commission, including the employees of registration centers, polling centers and stations, will be punished by dismissal" if it is proven that he cooperated with fraud.[/size]
[size=45]The statement stressed that "the voters who are proven to be involved in selling electoral electronic cards will be referred to the judiciary." In addition to “delivering any person who is proven to have an electronic card other than his own electoral card on the polling day to the security authorities for referral to the judiciary.”[/size]
[size=45]Voter Camps![/size]
[size=45]In another town near Mosul, the commander of a faction affiliated with the PMF "threatens the population" if he does not vote for him.[/size]
[size=45]The source confirms that "the faction leader tells the residents that he will imprison them or expel them from the town if their votes go to another candidate."[/size]
[size=45]This candidate, who participates in the elections alone, shares the constituency with the leader of another faction who established a “camp.”[/size]
[size=45]The source describes the camp as “fake” because it will end with the end of the elections. And he actually started training the youth there.[/size]
[size=45]The source added: “The faction commander distributed military uniforms to the volunteers and 150,000 first salaries until they are pushed into the crowd after the elections.”[/size]
[size=45]In Nineveh, there are about 40 crowds between the tribal crowd from within the province and popular crowds that came from outside Nineveh.[/size]
[size=45]Some factions, coming from outside Nineveh, control the administrative decision and acquire governmental and civil land and real estate.[/size]
[size=45]The forms of acquisition are divided into several ways: squatting, buying government lands at prices up to 10% of their basic value, and intimidating residents to sell their homes at half the real price.[/size]
[size=45]These groups are opening new residential neighborhoods and bringing residents from scattered villages in an attempt to change the demographics, according to what politicians there say. About two thousand pictures of Iranian leaders are spread in the province.[/size]
[size=45]Election environment[/size]
[size=45]For his part, Atheel al-Nujaifi, the former governor of Nineveh, describes the electoral environment inside Mosul as “falling under the competition of money” and “influence.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Nujaifi, in contact with (range), confirmed that the city has candidates who "take files for appointment and prepare others for jobs in exchange for voting for them."[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, he points out that there is another category of candidates, who are usually executives responsible for “faking crises” in Mosul.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Nujaifi adds: “These people create a crisis that disrupts salaries or privileges during the electoral campaign period, and then they announce finding a solution as a form of promotion.”[/size]
[size=45]In Sinjar, north of Mosul, the former governor asserts that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) “controls everything, including the elections.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Nujaifi asserts that "the residents of Sinjar will be obliged to vote for candidates approved by the Labor Party."[/size]
[size=45]In southern Nineveh, al-Nujaifi describes the situation there as “falling under the sway of clans that threaten voters to separate them from the districts if they do not vote for them.”[/size]
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