Elections are scheduled for January 30, 2005. Who will be elected and will it make any difference in the security situation?
A13. Two hundred seventy-five members of an Iraqi national assembly will be elected in a country-wide ballot. The ballot does not have names of individuals. Instead, some 111 slates of candidates, each with a minimum of 12 and maximum of 275 names, are on the ballot. Each slate will be awarded a proportion of the 275 seats equal to its proportion of the nation-wide vote count. Who actually ends up being in the national assembly depends on the number of seats a slate wins and the order of names on the slate: e.g., a slate awarded 25 seats would seat the first 25 names on the roster of names submitted to the Iraqi electoral commission. Once the national assembly meets, it will name a transitional executive from its membership and select a group to draft a new constitution. Iraqis will vote on the new constitution in October 2005 and, presuming it is approved, vote under its provisions for a permanent, fully sovereign government in December 2005.
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