The Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) of Iraq today said that the counting votes percentage throughout Iraq has reached 66 percent. Speaking at a press conference The IHEC official Hamdiya al-Husseini said that around 85% of the total results will be announced tomorrow.Meanwhile partial results of Iraq's elections show Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's coalition ahead in seven provinces including, Baghdad, whose 70 seats account for more than a fifth of Iraq's 325-member Council of Representatives and two of Iraq's three biggest provinces Basra and Karbala.The coalition is also ahead in predominantly-Shiite provinces of Babel, Najaf , Wassit, Diwaniya and al-Muthanna. Former Prime Minister Iyad llawi's secular Iraqiya alliance is leading in five provinces that include Diyala, Salaheddin, Anbar, Ninawa and surprisingly Kirkuk, which was considered the stronghold of Kurdish parties.A coalition of mostly Shia Muslim religious parties, the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) is showing lead in Thi-Qar and Missan, The Kurdistan Alliance (KA) of the two main Kurdish parties is ahead in the race in Kursd dominated provinces.Experts say that no single bloc is expected to get the absolute majority to form a government. More than 6,200 candidates from six major coalitions and other groups contested the parliamentary elections on March 7.
News On AIR | March 16, 2010 6:25 PM
85 per cent of Iraq election results to be annonced on Wednesday, says IHEC