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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Baghdad, November 11 (Xinhua) — Iraqis began voting in parliamentary elections on Tuesday morning for a new 329-member Council of Representatives.
According to the independent Supreme Electoral Commission, 8,703 polling stations will be open across the country from 07:00 local time /04:00 GMT/ to 18:00 /15:00 GMT/, where more than 20 million registered voters will be able to cast their ballots.
The vote is taking place amid a mandatory silence period imposed for security reasons. Iraq's last parliamentary elections, held in 2021, sparked violent clashes in the capital, Baghdad, and led to nearly a year of political impasse before a government was formed.
These parliamentary elections are the sixth since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and are seen as a test of the country's fragile stability.
In a televised address to the nation on Friday, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani urged Iraqis to participate in the elections, calling them the most important since 2003 and saying they will “determine Iraq’s future for the next 20 years.” –0–
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