Iraqi parties threaten boycott

[kentuck]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A65EB454-334F-4D1B-86D6-72D539C69D0F.htm

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Dozens of Sunni Arab and secular Shia groups have threatened to boycott Iraq's new legislature if complaints about election fraud are not reviewed by an international body.

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"If this is not achieved, then we will have no choice but to refuse the results and boycott the new parliament."

A representative for Ayad Allawi, the former prime minister of Iraq, dismissed the voting in all of Iraq's 18 provinces on 15 December as "fraudulent".

Ibrahim al-Janabi also described the elected lawmakers as "illegitimate".

"These elections are fraudulent, they are fraudulent, and the next parliament is illegitimate. We reject all this process," al-Janabi told a news conference.

The groups that signed the joint statement included the main Sunni Arab coalition, Adnan al-Dulaimi's Iraqi Accordance Front, and a secular Shia bloc headed by Allawi.


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[annabanana]

1. I guess Allawi lost... hence, "fraud".

Did we, or did we not expect the clerics to win? (dreadful as that is for everyone)

[Webster Green]

2. Wow!....They catch on quick to that "Democracy" thingie...

Why didn't we think of that?

Boycott for free elections.

I like it.