How Can Provincial Elections Contribute Security in Iraq?
Friday, 6 February 2009 Iraq descended into a civil war further after the first election in January 2005 causing thousands of dead. On the 31st of January, Iraqi people once again went to the polling stations to elect 440 representatives for the provincial councils from over 14, 000 candidates. Indeed, conducting ‘free elections’ in Iraq itself has still carried great security risks despite the fact that sectarian and nationalistic divisions appears to have died down recently. So far after the elections no major security problem caused by civil war and terrorism has been observed, but the risk is still there haunting the Iraqi people. So, can one interpret that largely violence-free elections have finally given way to the emergence of a more secure and stable Iraq? In other words, will these elections likely help stabilise Iraq in security terms, or still carry the risks for destabilising it in months and years ahead? Holding ‘Free’ Elections in Iraq: General Security Environment Iraq
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- Now that we have a provincial election scheduled for early next year, it seems that as long as nothing changes in terms of security we could have elections with very little gamesmanship going on?
- Why did the government fail to understand the needs of Iraq on the security front?
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