Iraq parties want polls to be put off

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Leading Iraqi political parties, including the group led by former presidential candidate Adnan Pachachi and the two main Kurdish parties, have signed a petition calling for the planned 30 January elections to be delayed.

After a meeting at Pachachi's house in Baghdad on Friday attended by at least three cabinet ministers, 15 parties and political groups signed a petition saying the polls should be postponed for up to six months.



Iraq's electoral commission said it will examine the request.



"We will examine this request tomorrow morning. It's a very
complicated question," Commission Chairman Abd al-Husayn al-Hindawi told AFP.

al Jazeera

[barbaraann]

1. June.

Bush "accidentally" said elections would be in June, not January, in a speech a few days ago. I should have bookmarked it, but I didn't.

Just watch--he knew then it would be June.

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3. It won't be June either.

Six months it the default "far enough away" time period.

[barbaraann]

5. Might be.

But June is the talking point right now.

[Career Prole]

2. They clearly hate themselves

for their freedoms. How dare Iraqis tell * what Iraqis are ready for?

[Make7]

4. I didn't realize that it mattered what they want. eom.