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Sunni Arab body calls for re-elections in Iraq
www.chinaview.cn 2005-12-20 23:45:48

    BAGHDAD, Dec. 20 (XinhuaNET) -- A Sunni Arab political group on Tuesday called for re-elections all over Iraq, citing wide-scale fraudulence in the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections.

    "We demand the elections be held again all over the country because of the fraudulence practiced in most of the polling centers for the sake of certain lists," Salih al-Mutlak, head of the Sunni Iraqi Front for the National Dialogue, told reporters at a news conference.

    Mutlak said his group garnered more than 360,000 votes in Baghdad only, according to initial counts in the polling centers, but the electoral commission announced the Front has garnered only 36,000 in Baghdad.

    He said his group obtained evidences of fraud acts in the elections, including several hours of footage of the fraudulence. However, he said "these evidences would not be submitted to the commission, but we demand an international investigation submit those evidences to a neutral committee."

    Mutlak called on US President George W. Bush "not to make another mistake in Iraq" after he made his mistake in invading the country depending on false intelligence of Saddam Hussein's possession of weapons of mass destruction.

    Earlier in the day, the Sunni Arab coalition and Iraq's former prime minister Iyad Allawi's coalition said they have reservations on the partial results of the parliamentary elections announced by the country's electoral commission on Monday.

    The results showed that the Shiite coalition won most of the votes in Baghdad and other Shiite provinces. Enditem

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