Saturday, 3/27/2010 Allawi’s Side Wins Iraq Elections
Ruh roh! Tough time for incumbents….. everywhere. Current PM Nouri al Maliki comes in 2nd in Iraq, and
…. he’s not happy.
http://english.aljazeera.net/n…
Iraq election results, out of 325 seats, 163 needed to form a government:
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Ayad Allawi’s Iraquiya coalition – 91 seats
Nouri al Maliki’s State of Law Alliance – 89 seats
(Shia) Iraqi National Alliance – 70 seats
Kurdistania (K. Democratic Party, Patriotic Union of K.) – 43 seats
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(ARC note: clever readers notice this doesn’t add up. Some small minority factions are awarded reserved seats.)