Iraq Elections 2024: News & Updates

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Women in the Iraqi elections…influential or symbolic participation?

Baghdad – Sky News Arabia

Women in the Iraqi elections represent 30 percent of the candidates

Iraqi women are running in the 2025 parliamentary elections, carrying a new test for a long journey of struggle for effective, not formal, political participation. Read more…

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Iraq elects.. What will happen from polling day to announcing the results?

Agencies – Abu Dhabi

Iraqis cast their votes on Tuesday to choose a new parliament

Iraqis cast their votes today, Tuesday, to choose a new parliament composed of 329 seats for a four-year term. Read more…

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Iraqi parliamentary elections: 20 million voters and 7 thousand candidates

Agencies – Abu Dhabi

Security preparedness for the parliamentary elections in Iraq

The Independent High Electoral Commission announced that more than 20 million Iraqi voters will participate in general voting for the 2025 House of Representatives elections across the country, today, Tuesday. Read more…

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l 5 hours ago

Iraq’s elections… Citizens face a game of struggle for power and influence

Abu Dhabi – Sky News Arabia

Billboards for election candidates in Iraq

In Iraq, the funds that promised to be the key to change have become, in the eyes of many Iraqis, a scene for repeated faces and disappointments, and here popular reluctance appears more present than participation, especially after the call made by the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, for the necessity of boycott. Read more…

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l 8 hours ago

Iraq elections…the media is facing a test in combating hate speech

Sky News Arabia – Abu Dhabi

Iraqi elections

The level of political and social tension in Iraq is rising due to the electoral entitlement, which is an opportunity to strengthen democracy and participation, but due to the spread of hate speech and incitement between the various political parties and factions, it turns into a field of rivalry and discord. Read more…

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On the eve of the elections…the Iraqi Foreign Ministry attacks Iran

Sky News Arabia – Abu Dhabi

Iraqi Foreign Ministry

On Monday, the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its rejection and astonishment at the statements made by Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Baghaei regarding the Iraqi elections, describing them as “clear and unacceptable interference” in the country’s internal affairs. Read more…

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l 12 hours ago

Iraq’s elections…security challenges facing the “day of decision”

Sky News Arabia – Abu Dhabi

Members of the Iraqi security forces protect a polling station

Tomorrow, Tuesday, Iraqis are preparing to go to the polls to choose their representatives in the parliamentary elections, in a political entitlement that comes amid complex security challenges, most notably the proliferation of weapons outside the framework of the state and repeated threats against some candidates, at a time when the authorities confirm their full readiness to secure the electoral process from its beginning until the announcement of its final results. Read more…

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l 17 hours ago

The angry generation is turning into an electoral force.. What has changed in Iraq?

Baghdad – Sky News Arabia

There are approximately 19 million young voters on the electoral list

Since the last early Iraqi elections, which were organized in October 2021 under the weight of the massive 2019 demonstrations led by young people to demand change and reform, expanding the role of youth movements and their political participation has become the most prominent feature of the electoral stations. Read more…