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Updates on Iraqi Elections

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Updates on Iraqi Elections

With with 89 percent of the votes counted from the March 7 election, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s coalition has edged ahead of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.  Nuri al-Maliki’s coalition is currently leading Allawi’s bloc by about 40,000 votes.  However, Votes are still being tallied and the race is still too close to call.  The final and complete preliminary results are expected over the next few days.

Read the full story at CNN.com

 

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Neshani Jani

FPA blogger Neshani Jani holds a Masters degree in Media Culture and Communication from New York University and dual Bachelors degrees in Anthropology and Spanish Literature from the University of California, Davis. She is a freelance writer and is currently helping to manage blog networks for the Foreign Policy Association and the Women's Education Project.

Neshani has a background in journalism and interned with the CBS News program 60 Minutes. Additionally, she is a public and internet radio veteran. She has worked as a research assistant at both the Social Science Research Council and at the Institute for Scientific Analysis and currently blogs for several of the Foreign Policy Association's global affairs blogs.


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