Iraq.. The Federal Court postpones the hearing in the case to annul the election results

[size=52]Iraq.. The Federal Court postpones the hearing in the case to annul the election results[/size]

[size=31]The lawsuit was filed by the head of the Al-Fateh Alliance Hadi Al-Amiri[/size]

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[size=45]In Monday's session, the Iraqi Federal Court adjourned until December 22 the settlement of a lawsuit filed by the "Al-Fateh" coalition, the political bloc representing the Popular Mobilization, to annul the results of the October 10 legislative elections, an AFP correspondent reported.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Fateh, which represents the crowd, which is an alliance of Shiite factions loyal to Iran that has become affiliated with the official forces, denounces the electoral fraud, after it won 17 seats out of 329 seats in Parliament, compared to 48 seats in the previous elections.[/size]
[size=45]The Federal Court must resolve complaints before it ratifies the final results of the elections so that the new parliament can convene.[/size]
[size=45]This is the second session of the Federal Court in this regard. At the end of the session, Judge Jassim Muhammad Abboud, the head of the session, which included nine other judges, said, “The court decided to postpone the date of the pleading to December 22, in order to allow the plaintiff’s attorneys to present their last pleas” and for the court to complete its consideration of the case “according to what was stated in the regulations presented in this session. “.[/size]
[size=45]Lawyer Muhammad Majid Al-Saadi, representative of the parties submitting the complaint, confirmed that the aim of the lawsuit is to “cancel the election results.”[/size]
[size=45]He said, "It became clear that there were very serious and major violations that would cause a change in the general result" after reviewing the summaries of expert reports requested by the Electoral Commission.[/size]
[size=45]Officials in the Al-Fateh Alliance had explained in a recent press conference the controversial points regarding the results, noting that there were malfunctions in the electronic voting.[/size]
[size=45]They reminded, based on those technical reports, that the electronic fingerprints of some voters were not read, and they also wondered about the reasons for bringing in a new electronic device called the “C1000” days before the elections and the failures that occurred in its use.[/size]
[size=45]Other parties also submitted complaints to the Federal Court challenging the results.[/size]
[size=45]In November, the United Nations Special Envoy to Iraq, Jenin Plasschaert, defended the work of the Electoral Commission, saying that there were no indications of “systematic fraud.”[/size]
[size=45]After several weeks of tension that culminated when Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi was subjected to an assassination attempt earlier this month, the High Elections Commission announced the final results in late November.[/size]
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Hadi al-Amiri (archive - AFP)
[size=45]The Sadrist bloc, led by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, topped the results, with 73 seats.[/size]
[size=45]Although the Popular Mobilization factions did not lead the winning blocs in the elections, and the number of their fighters is estimated at 160,000 fighters, these formations remain an important player on the security and political level in the country.[/size]
[size=45]In the meantime, negotiations on forming the next government will continue, but they are moving in a complex spiral dominated by Shiite parties that eventually resort to a satisfactory agreement regardless of the number of seats occupied by each party.[/size]
[size=45]At the beginning of the month, Al-Amiri stressed that the Al-Fateh coalition was continuing to challenge the elections to the Federal Court, accusing the Electoral Commission of committing a series of violations.[/size]
[size=45]He also considered that the parliamentary elections that took place in the country on October 10, last year, plunged Iraq into a "big predicament," as he put it.[/size]
[size=45]Muqtada al-Sadr hinted more than once that he preferred to form a majority government, in light of the electoral results that took place last October, which showed that he led the largest parliamentary bloc with 73 seats.[/size]
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