Election commission announces preliminary results in Iraq
Iraqis voted Monday in the first provincial council elections held in a decade, which were expected to strengthen the dominance of pro-Iranian Shiite Muslim groups. teleSUR
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00:00 Iraqis vote Monday in the first provincial council elections held in a decade which were
00:05 expected to strengthen the dominance of pro-Iranian Shiite Muslim groups.
00:11 The vote comes at a time of widespread political apathy and disillusionment in the old rich
00:20 country of 43 million that is still recovering from years of war and pledged by corruption.
00:26 The media report pulls close a plan at 6 p.m. local time with the election commissions and
00:33 preliminary results were expected 24 hours later.
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