Pre-Rigged Iraqi Elections

Posted by Dr. Awab Alvi

January 27, 2005 | 1 views

Can you honestly believe that the upcoming elections in Iraq are fair and transparent. A few rules of the election day are as follows

Iraqis have to vote for ‘parties only’ since the names of the contesting candidates are to be kept secret for the sake of their security - that’s really nice, so any tom-dick-and-harry (read USA) can write any person’s name into the parliament ledger after the elections who happens to toot the right tune. Try doing such an election in Pakistan, I can just imagine our nation going crazy for a National Assembly seat.
With such secrecy how would the people know who stands for what. This is an extreme end of the so-called party based free-elections.
Iraqis are not allowed to congregate anywhere during the election day, vehiclur traffic is prohibited. in actual sense people have to walk to the polling station and similarly - so long for the ‘naray baazi’ (party chants).

These elections have been trumpeted as the cornerstone to a Liberated Democratic Iraq. What a fiasco - call these elections free and fair, M Y - A $ &