TEHRAN, May 12 - Iraqis head to the polls on Saturday for parliamentary elections with 329 members of parliament elected from party lists who will be tasked with forming a government and electing a prime minister and president.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) – Nearly 24.5 million of Iraq's roughly 38 million people are registered to vote. They are spread out across 18 provinces.
Of the election candidates, a third are woman.
Voters can cast their ballots at 8,959 polling stations across the country, all of which are equipped for electronic voting.
According to Iraqi authorities, nearly 11 million biometric identity cards have been distributed to authenticate identities.
Voters will select party lists and seats will be divided up according to the number of votes each list secures.
Polling for Iraq's roughly one million security force personnel and the one million voters living abroad was held ahead of the main election day.
Following the fall of the Iraqi US-backed dictator Saddam Hussein, Iraq held its first general election in January 2005, selecting a national assembly tasked with drafting a new constitution.
It then held parliamentary elections in December 2005, with two subsequent polls in 2010 and 2014.
Source: AFP
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