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Baghdad holds key to Iraq election result
Wednesday 10 Mar, 2010
Iraq awaited initial results yesterday from polls touted as a test of its young democracy, with Bag-hdad holding the key as the PM’s list and its top secular rival fought for pole position.
The election commission had promised to provide initial results by the evening, but it later said it had not yet counted the 30 per cent of the votes it needed to announce preliminary findings.
Iraq’s complex range of political blocs would now have to wait until today at the earliest for the first official indication of how they fared in the second general election since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein.
PM Nuri al-Maliki emerged as the front-runner on Monday.
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