Partial elections can be held in Iraq

In the event that the UN Commissar who arrived at Iraq comes to the conclusion about the impossibility of holding universal elections in the country, partial elections may be a compromise decision. This was announced on Saturday by the current head of the Provisional Managing Council (VUS) Iraq Mokhsin Abdel Hami on Saturday in an interview with the Arab newspaper Ash Shark.

“I think,” added the chairman of the VUS, “those who call for a general election will agree with this.” According to Abdel Hamid, they also understand that their holding until June 30 of this year, before the transfer of power from the coalition administration, is associated with difficulties.

On holding universal direct elections in Iraq, the Shiite clergy, led by Ayatollah Ali Sistani, insists. The temporary occupation administration and VUS, in turn, believe that members of the Provisional National Assembly and the Provisional Government, in which the power will be transferred to the transition period should be assigned. The special commission of the UN who arrived on the eve of Iraq is called upon to solve this dispute.

To conduct general elections, Mohsin Abdel Hamid indicated, it is necessary to conduct a census of the population, adopt the election law, and finally ensure security. All this takes time. If you observe all these conditions, noted the chairman of the Vusi, then the deadline for Iraq’s acquisition of his sovereignty, which the people are looking forward to, will be pushed away.