Baghdad-Sana
The first phase of the early Iraqi parliamentary elections kicked off this morning, with voters from the army, police, displaced people and prison inmates heading to the polls to elect their representatives in the new parliament in its fifth parliamentary session since 2003.
A source in the Supreme Security Committee for Elections told SANA correspondent in Baghdad, “One million and 75,727 members of the army, police and security institutions, 120,126 displaced people and 676 inmates in prisons are eligible to vote in the first phase of the elections called the Special Voting Day.”
The source explained that the High Elections Commission has allocated 595 electoral centers for the security and military forces, comprising 2584 polling stations throughout Iraq, and for the displaced 86 centers with 309 stations distributed over 27 camps for the displaced. Wasit.
In turn, the spokesman for the Joint Operations Command, Major General Tahsin Al-Khafaji, revealed the leadership's plan to secure the special voting operations today and the general voting next Sunday.
Al-Khafaji said: There is no intention to impose a comprehensive curfew during the two voting days, but movement between the provinces will be limited, and the Iraqi Air Force will also participate in securing the elections by flights to prevent any violation, in addition to the participation of drones in the process.