Iraq has postponed the country’s parliamentary elections by one day to 7 th March next year. Voice of Iraq news agency quoting presidential chief-of-staff, Nasser al-Ani, has said that there was an agreement to hold the elections on 6th March but another meeting studied the case and decided to postpone it for one day.Iraqi authorities had originally set March 6 as the date for the parliamentary polls, the second such vote since Iraq’s deposed ruler Saddam Hussein was ousted by a US-led action in 2003.The announcement comes after Iraqi parliamentarians finally struck a deal to get the poll back on track, but the news was overshadowed by a series of five car bombs in Baghdad yesterday that killed at least 112 people.The news agency has reported that election was postponed for a day as Kurdish leaders had complained that March 6 was historically inappropriate because of a treaty signed decades ago on that day between Iraq and Iran, which they say eroded their rights.
News On AIR | December 9, 2009 2:46 PM
Iraq parliamentary elections on March 7