{"id":860189,"date":"2021-10-08T15:14:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T19:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=860189"},"modified":"2021-10-08T15:14:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T19:14:38","slug":"iraqi-election-set-for-sunday-un-to-monitor-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iraqi-election-set-for-sunday-un-to-monitor-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi election set for Sunday, UN to monitor polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firaqi-election-set-for-sunday-un-to-monitor-polls%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=860189&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2544160\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2544160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A displaced Iraqi casts his ballot in the presence of UN observers at a polling station in Arbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, on October 8, 2021, two days before the rest of the country in a poll overshadowed by expectations for a low turnout. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 12:06 PM PT \u2013 Friday, October 8, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Iraq is set to hold its upcoming election under the newly reformed electoral law. On Sunday, the election will be divided into 83 constituencies, instead of 18 from years past, giving more opportunity for those to participate as independent candidates.<\/p>\n<p>This year the country has requested the UN to monitor Iraq\u2019s high electoral commission to help prevent voter fraud. The recent changes come after over 600 people were killed during mass protests in October 2019 when the Iraqi people expressed their concerns that the international community didn\u2019t support their voices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world did not hear us and did not pay attention to what was going on in Iraq as a massive revolution, the revolution that has changed the Iraqi history, but unfortunately a lot of politicians and countries have silenced their ears to the Iraqi voice calling for real change,\u201d stated activist Ahmad Hashoush.<\/p>\n<p>The election will see 130 international experts monitoring the polls and an independent audit firm will be keeping track on how exactly the votes are being counted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today was Iraq\u2019s special voting day. The UN was present. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Vote4Iraq?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Vote4Iraq<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6HArkJwD39\">pic.twitter.com\/6HArkJwD39<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UNAMI (@UNIraq) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNIraq\/status\/1446484826899587076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sen-manchin-condemns-sen-schumers-shots-at-senate-gop\/\">Sen. Manchin Condemns Sen. Schumer\u2019s Shots At Senate GOP<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A displaced Iraqi casts his ballot in the presence of UN observers at a polling station in Arbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, on October 8, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}