Dec 03 2004
‘Election’ in Iraq
Bush Adamant on Iraq Election Schedule WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush rejected calls for a delay in next month’s Iraqi elections, insisting Thursday that the vote was too important to put off even though violence and chaos still grip much of the country.
“It’s time for the Iraqi citizens to go to the polls,” Bush said.
Bush predicted Iraq’s elections would leave the world “amazed that a society has been transformed so quickly,” but he did not explain why he was so adamant that balloting go forward as scheduled Jan. 30.
A number of Iraqi political parties have urged delay.
2 Responses to “‘Election’ in Iraq”
no matter who you vote for…
the government gets elected.
There are hundreds of parties registered to take part in the election. The ones wanting to delay it are the Sunnis (not all of them) who represent the remnants of the Baathist party and are in opposition to the idea of losing supremacy over Iraq. Even if they agreed to take part, the result would be that the elected parliament would not have a majority in their favor, so they view it as a bad deal.