Some Thoughts on the Election Results

"Chalabi’s Delusions: Whereas the Chalabi camp is still maintaining that they got about 15 seats in the next parliament, most indicators from Iraq today stress that these assertions are not true. Unless, of course, the Chalabi block is cheating at one stage of the vote counting process. But most of the initials hand counts from all over southern and central Iraq show an extremely weak showing for the INC, and its two ‘shadow lists.’ These so-called ‘shadow lists’—no. ‘829’ headed by Abdel-Aziz Al-Kubaisi and no. ‘673’ headed by Abdel-Aziz Al-Wandawi—were supposed to decant some support from Allawi’s lot among secular Iraqis who wouldn’t vote for Chalabi due to a variety of reasons; sectarian background, class identity, personal animosity…etc. There is even one source claiming that Chalabi had received less than 2,000 votes in all of Western Baghdad (out of 600,000)—a claim that I find less and less outlandish as more projected results come in.

The Islamic Republic of Iraq: Many factors contributed to the United Iraq Alliance victory at the polls:"
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