The Electoral Commission will start the manual counting process, starting tomorrow

[size=52]The Electoral Commission will start the manual counting process, starting tomorrow[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Hussein Hatem[/size]
[size=45]Tomorrow, Wednesday, the Electoral Commission will begin the first stages of the manual counting process, starting with Nineveh Governorate, while the number of appeals covered by the commission until yesterday reached about 46 appeals.[/size]
[size=45]The Electoral Commission will open 800 stations until the completion of the scrutiny of all appeals received, without specifying a time limit for the completion of the re-counting phase.[/size]
[size=45]Member of the media of the High Elections Commission, Imad Jamil, said in an interview with (Al-Mada), that “a reconsideration will take place in accordance with the appeals received by 800 stations tomorrow, Wednesday,” adding, “So far, there is no specific timetable for the completion of the re-counting and sorting phase.”[/size]
[size=45]Jamil added, "The appeals that the Commission decided to include in the counting and sorting process until yesterday amounted to 46 appeals."[/size]
[size=45]A member of the media of the High Elections Commission indicated that "the counting process will be in the presence of the petitioners and international observers."[/size]
[size=45]Jamil concluded, "The results of the appeals will be announced in the names and then submitted to the Federal Court for approval to be final."[/size]
[size=45]Yesterday, Monday, the Electoral Commission announced the start of the first stages of the manual “counting and sorting” process in (70) stations in Nineveh Governorate.[/size]
[size=45]The Commission stated in a statement received by (Al-Mada), that "belief from the High Electoral Commission in the transparency of the electoral process and dealing seriously with the appeals requests submitted to it, the Commission will start the first stages of the manual counting and sorting process in (70) stations in Nineveh Governorate, on Wednesday 10/27/2021 at Eight in the morning until five in the afternoon in the Hall of Honor / The Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Baghdad.[/size]
[size=45]She added, "The manual counting and sorting process will take place in the presence of political party agents, candidates, observers and the media."[/size]
[size=45]In turn, the former head of the Electoral Commission, Adel Al-Lami, said in an interview with (Al-Mada), that "the appeals submitted to the commission are more than 1,400 appeals, and a small percentage of them fall within the red complaints that require the opening of certain boxes." Al-Lami added, "The commission will depend on the number that will appear after the counting and manual sorting, whether it is in the interest of the appellant in terms of changing the result or not if the result changes to less."[/size]
[size=45]The former head of the Electoral Commission considered that "the changes that will occur after the appeals will not fundamentally change the equation, but will be minor changes," pointing out that "the changes do not exceed two or three seats," adding that "the results announced by the Commission can be adopted as semi-final results." .[/size]
[size=45]Last Sunday, the Board of Commissioners recommended dismissing 461 appeals and recounting 297 electoral stations.[/size]
[size=45]The Commission said that it "continues to study the appeals submitted to it, as it was audited by the relevant department," noting that "accordingly, 483 appeals were presented to the Board of Commissioners."[/size]
[size=45]She added, "After completing the necessary investigative procedures in light of the evidence and the submitted recommendation, the Council recommended the dismissal of 461 appeals for various reasons, the most important of which is the lack of evidence for the appeal or its violation of the provisions of Article 38/First of the effective Iraqi Parliament elections law."[/size]
[size=45]She explained that "in the appeals that were rejected, the appellant did not specify the station or center whose results he is appealing, as well as his demand to open all the stations of the electoral district or to prove that the announced results match," noting that "these appeals will be sent with a recommendation to the Judicial Commission for Elections for decision in accordance with the law." .[/size]
[size=45]She confirmed that the council agreed to re-count and manual counting in 297 electoral stations based on "22 appeals distributed to the governorates of Diyala, Nineveh, Maysan, Karbala, Kirkuk, Dhi Qar, Anbar, Qadisiyah, Salah al-Din, Muthanna, Basra, Baghdad and Babil, as it was supported by evidence."[/size]
[size=45]According to the election results, the Sadrist movement won the highest number of seats with 73 seats, and the "Progress" coalition led by Muhammad al-Halbousi came in second place after winning 37 seats, while the State of Law coalition, headed by Nuri al-Maliki, came in third place by winning It won 34 seats, without counting the joined independents, then the Kurdistan Democratic Party with 33 seats, while the Al-Fateh Alliance won 16 seats.[/size]
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