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What are the expectations from October 10 elections in Iraq?

Ahmed Alzawiti, journalist

Iraqis will go to the polls on Sunday, October 10, for their country's sixth parliamentary election. However, this election may be about a lack of votes. The turnout in Iraq's first free elections in 2005 was almost 80 percent. From then on the number of voters decreases. We speak to Al-Jazeera's Kurdish journalist Ahmed Alzawiti about the expectations in regards to this election.


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Iraqis will go to the polls on Sunday, October 10, for their country's sixth parliamentary election. However, this election may be about a lack of votes. The turnout in Iraq's first free elections in 2005 was almost 80 percent. From then on the number of voters decreases. We speak to Al-Jazeera's Kurdish journalist Ahmed Alzawiti about the expectations in regards to this election.



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