IHEC announces receiving appeals again requiring one case

INA - BAGHDAD

Independent High Electoral Commission - IHEC announced on Saturday, receiving appeals against the results, while it stipulated a single case relating only to the availability of the first plaintiffs who do not carry a recommendation for counting and sorting that was confirmed to sense a state of satisfaction with the entities’ agents, candidates and monitoring teams over the course of the ongoing process in Baghdad.

"Since the Electoral Commission began counting and sorting the votes of the stations whose results were contested, it began according to a specific timetable for the governorates, and today ended the process with 348 stations next to Karkh, all indications show that the results are identical,” said Hassan Salman, Director of the Media and Mass Communication Department at the Electoral Commission, to Al-Iraqiya News, followed by the Iraqi News Agency (INA).

He added: "Through our daily presence in the counting room, we saw a state of satisfaction from party agents, candidates, local and international monitoring teams with the process and its results, as things began to be more convinced for those who complained about the validity of the results,”

“Tomorrow, the counting and sorting process for the stations whose results are contested will take place in 6 governorates, and there are technical aspects that will be taken into account, as it is not possible to predict the date of completion,”

He stressed that "the Commission has opened the door to submitting appeals again for the first claims that were referred to the judicial body that does not carry a recommendation for counting and sorting only, which gives the opportunity for the complainants to submit their documents,”