Pressure mounts for Iraqi election delay

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Iraq's president reignited calls for a delay to the first national elections due in three weeks when he said yesterday that escalating violence would make it difficult to hold a proper vote.

The main Sunni party has withdrawn from the election already while other senior Iraqi officials, including the defence minister and the ambassador to the UN, have publicly suggested a delay.

At a meeting of hundreds of Sunni figures at a large mosque in Baghdad yesterday there were further angry calls for a postponement. This combined force is now putting the January 30 poll in jeopardy.

"On a logical basis, there are signs that it will be a tough call to hold the election," the president, Sheikh Ghazi al-Yawar, told Reuters. He said the UN should step in and decide whether it was safe to hold the vote as scheduled.

Guaridian UK

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1. This is gettin' more and more legitimate!

Woo-hoo, freedom is on the march! Or is it "Freedom (deep) Fries"?
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2. Duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1120357