NationStates Jolt Archive

Dunno if this has been done, and I can't be arsed to search, so I'm doing it now.

If you could vote in the Iraqi elections, who would you vote for?

I don't see the canidate for the Iraqi Communist Party.

Then again, they ALL look the same to me.


EDIT: Forgot to say, :D

*writes in "Muhummed" tee hee

who are they?


i think ill just vote for whoever has the coolest name

better not vote for allawi!

Naturally, they are all American puppets.

If you named the parties rather than the candidates, I'd go for the People's Union anyday (it is a collaberation of secularists that include the Commies, to answer a previous question). However, I don't know who the names belong to, as it were.

Ok ok ok ... about the candidates ...

1] Iyad Allawi, Iraq's US-backed interim prime minister, heads the Iraqi National Accord party. Commentators note wryly that he has the advantage of being equally mistrusted by everyone, from Washington - which he has criticised - to ordinary Iraqis, who suspect him of being a CIA stooge.

2] Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, Shia cleric, has a long history of opposition to the rule of Saddam Hussein, and tops the electoral list of the United Iraqi Alliance. He was elected chairman of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (Sciri) following the assassination of his brother, Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim. He promised Sunnis would be represented in any future government regardless of any election boycott. My personal choice.

3] Ghazi Yawer, the interim president of Iraq, leads an 80-member Iraqis list. He is a prominent Sunni figure and a tribal leader from the northern city of Mosul. Educated in the US, he usually appears in traditional Arab dress and is considered to have fairly wide support among Iraq's ethnic and religious groups.

4] Ibrahim Jaafari, a medical doctor, is the official spokesman of the Islamic Daawa Party. He was based in London until April 2003, before returning to become the Governing Council's first chairman in July 2003. He was appointed one of two vice-presidents of the interim government.

5] Ahmed Chalabi is considered one of the prime movers behind the US-led invasion of Iraq due to his closeness with influential figures in Washington - but his relationship with them has soured since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

6] Adnan Pachachi, like Mr Chalabi, was once seen as a possible president of post-Saddam Iraq, with reports suggesting he was the UN favourite in the spring of 2004. He heads the Iraqi Independent Democrats, a small party formed after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, and is one of the few significant Sunni figures standing in the polls. He has repeatedly called for the postponement of the elections for fear of a low Sunni turnout.

7] Dr Hussein Shahristani, a Shia nuclear scientist, was one of six figures chosen to draw up the electoral list of the United Iraqi Alliance. Whilst director of research at the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission in 1979, he was imprisoned for possessing a subversive leaflet condemning the repression of Iraqi Shias.

8] Massoud Barzani, a Kurdish Sunni, who has led the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) since the death of his father, Mullah Mustafa, in 1979. Mr Barzani has worked in tandem with Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) leader Jalal Talabani since 2002, and the two groups form the backbone of the Kurdistan Alliance List

The more you know ...

I vote for Howard Dean.

None. They're all hypocrites like the ones in other Arab nations.

*writes in "Muhummed" tee hee
:D

I would vote for Massoud Barzani.

My reason is that I belive that the Kurds need a strong national leader that will be a little more hospitible to them as apposed to the foreign leaders that kick them out of everywhere they go.

I feel bad for the kurds. they more than many others really wanted the ousting of Saddam Hussien to go forth. And help they did.

If you could vote in the Iraqi elections, who would you vote for?

i got the impression it was a party list, proportional representation vote.

are the Ba'ath party standing?

Naturally, they are all American puppets.
You might as well have Bush run in the elections. At least people wouldn't get confused.

you've missed Saddam Hussein buddy

are the Ba'ath party standing?

no, they're outlawed. but some former members are standing with other parties.

no, they're outlawed. but some former members are standing with other parties.
ok

dont you just love democracies where some parties are banned? almost reminds me of.....well, the Ba'ath party...