Shia cleric Muqtada al Sadr's party wins most seats in Iraq’s parliamentary elections, initial results show
Iraqi supporters of Sadr's movement celebrate after preliminary results of Iraq's parliamentary election were announced in Baghdad, Iraq on October 11, 2021.
A spokesperson for Sadr's office said the number was 73 seats. Local news outlets published the same figure. Sunday's vote was held in response to mass protests in 2019 that demanded jobs, services, the removal of Iraq's ruling parties andof the political system. Security forces and militias killed hundreds of protesters in a brutal crackdown on the unrest.
An attack blamed on Daesh on a voting centre in a remote part of northern Iraq left a police officer dead, a security source said.The vote was marred by technical problems at some stations, including malfunctioning equipment and fingerprint readers, officials and AFP journalists said.Sadr, a maverick leader remembered for leading an insurgency against US forces after the 2003 invasion, appeared to have increased his movement’s seats in the 329-member parliament from 54 in 2018 to more than 70.
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