Muqtada al-Sadr's alliance wins Iraqi election recount

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Muqtada al-Sadr's alliance wins Iraqi election recount
MEE and agencies
Sadr's alliance retains all 54 of the seats it won in the 12 May election and can now look to form a government
Thursday 9 August 2018

The manual recount of votes cast in Iraq's May elections has been completed, with cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's alliance retaining all 54 of the seats it won.

With Sadr's Sairoon Alliance confirmed as winners of the legistlative election, a government can now be formed, almost three months after the polls.

Allegations of fraud prompted the recount, but the only change that came from it was an extra seat for the Conquest Alliance of pro-Iranian former paramilitary fighters, which remains in second place. There are 329 seats in Iraq's Council of Representatives.

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