ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Influential Sunni politician Salim al-Jabouri called for Iraq to hold a second vote following the numerous debacles including allegations of rigging and ballots being burned on Sunday.
He claimed the burning of ballots in the Iraqi capital was planned to hide proof of fraud.
He asked the relevant authorities to "pursue those who contributed to the fraud and sabotage."
Jabouri called on Iraqi parliament's Security and Defense Committee to take necessary measures and for “the media to follow up on the details of this matter."
Jabouri ran on the Wataniya list with secular Shiite Ayad Allawi, a former Iraqi prime minister.
Allawi echoed Jabouri’s call for a re-vote, according to Reuters.
Wataniya, in the days following the May 12th election when unofficial preliminary results were released by Iraq’s High Independent Electoral Commission, called for a recount, alleging voter fraud.
Sunnis entered the 2018 election politically fractured. More than 2 million Iraqis still remain displaced from the ISIS conflict — many from traditional Sunni strongholds in Nineveh and Anbar.
Wataniya won 22 seats, according to the results published by the IHEC a week after the election. That was sixth — behind Shiite parties and the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
"We call for re-run on elections after it was proved that there was rigging, the results were played with, and the will of Iraqi people was falsified in a deliberate and dangerous way,” Jabouri, who is currently the speaker of Iraq’s parliament, stated on Sunday.
He claimed the burning of ballots in the Iraqi capital was planned to hide proof of fraud.
"The crime of burning ballot seats warehouses in Rusafa is a deliberate and planned crime, aimed at hiding fraud in the election, deceiving Iraqi people and changing their will and choice,” added Jabouri
He asked the relevant authorities to "pursue those who contributed to the fraud and sabotage."
Jabouri called on Iraqi parliament's Security and Defense Committee to take necessary measures and for “the media to follow up on the details of this matter."
Jabouri ran on the Wataniya list with secular Shiite Ayad Allawi, a former Iraqi prime minister.
Allawi echoed Jabouri’s call for a re-vote, according to Reuters.
Wataniya, in the days following the May 12th election when unofficial preliminary results were released by Iraq’s High Independent Electoral Commission, called for a recount, alleging voter fraud.
Sunnis entered the 2018 election politically fractured. More than 2 million Iraqis still remain displaced from the ISIS conflict — many from traditional Sunni strongholds in Nineveh and Anbar.
Wataniya won 22 seats, according to the results published by the IHEC a week after the election. That was sixth — behind Shiite parties and the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
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