This morning Iraq’s presidency council voted to delay parliamentary elections until March 7th of 2010. The decision came after a meeting at President Jalal Talabani’s residency late Tuesday which included Talabani and two vice presidents, Adel Abdul Mahdi and Tariq al-Hashimi, along with Faraj al-Haidari, head of the IHEC. Although the elections were previously slated to take place on March 6th, Chief of Staff Naseer al-Ani stated that the one day delay was not politically motivated. The announcement comes after 5 near simultaneous bomb blasts killed 110 people and injured hundreds more yesterday in Baghdad.
