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Election results remain the same after recount, commission says
May 16, 2010, 13:23 GMT
Baghdad - Iraq's electoral commission said Sunday that there was no difference between the initial results of the country's parliamentary elections and the results after a recount of votes cast in the capital, Baghdad.
'Around 86 per cent of votes were for individual candidates, not for the lists, which makes fraud very difficult,' Qasim al-Aboudi of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) told reporters.
Al-Aboudi said that there was no change in the number of seats won by each coalition in the March parliamentary elections after a recount of votes cast in Baghdad.
A Baghdad court ordered a manual recount of the ballots cast in the capital after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition alleged the results were fraudulent.
The results of the March 7 parliamentary elections showed the Iraqiya List of former prime minister Iyad Allawi winning 91 seats in the 325-member parliament, followed by al-Maliki's coalition, with 89 seats.
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