Iraq's Sadr bloc confirmed as biggest winner of October parliamentary vote

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AFP
November 30, 16:34
Iraq's Shiite Muslim firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr was Tuesday confirmed the biggest winner of last month's parliamentary election that had sparked charges of voter fraud from pro-Iranian factions. Sadr's movement won 73 out of the assembly's 329 seats, the election commission said, after a lengthy manual recount of hundreds of ballot boxes.

A distant second in the Shiite camp with 17 seats was the Fatah (Conquest) Alliance, the political arm of the pro-Iran Hashed al-Shaabi former paramilitary force, which is now integrated into Iraq's state security apparatus.

Hashed leaders had rejected the preliminary result, which was sharply down from their 48 seats in the outgoing assembly, as a "scam", and their supporters have held street protests chanting "No to fraud".

… Military bases housing US troops have been targeted with dozens of missile and drone strikes which Washington blames on pro-Iran factions.

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20211130-iraqi-cleric-sadr-confirmed-as-biggest-winner-of-october-parliamentary-vote

[The Magistrate]

1. Thank You, Sir

I'd not have noticed this otherwise. He had the air of the coming man during our occupation of the place.