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December 10, 2004
Coalition of Shias in poll position
Topics: Middle East News and PerspectivesAustralian.news.com.au reporting for Dec 11:
Despite continued violence and calls to
postpone the poll, or stagger it over two or three weeks, the United
Iraqi Alliance yesterday named 228 candidates who will contest the
election on January 30.
The group could easily dominate the future 275-member assembly. It has the backing of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the spiritual leader of Iraq's Shia Muslims, who make up more than 60per cent of the country's 26million people.
Dr Hussain al-Shahristani, a former professor at the University of Surrey in southern England and who helped to draw up the coalition, said the group represented "all Iraqis, not just the Shias".
"The different parties and the national figures asked the religious authority to help it form an alliance that represents the Iraqi spectrum with its various religious, ethnic and geographic components," he said. The list of 25 parties and scores of independent candidates includes members of other religious sects, including Sunni Muslims, Kurds, Yazidis and Turkomens. Read More...
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