Kurdistan Coalition candidate becomes first Kurd to win seat in Saladin

According to unofficial statistics that PUKmedia has received, the Kurdistan Coalition candidate Karim Shakur Muhamad won the majority of votes in Saladin and thus becoming the first Kurd to win a seat in the Arab majority governorate.

Muhamad was also the only candidate of the coalition in Saladin. 

Saladin has regions disputed between Erbil and Baghdad, such as Tuz Khurmatu.  The region has been subjected to large Arabization campaigns throughout history, which Article 140 of the Iraqi constitution stipulates.

Candidates are competing for 329 seats in the Iraqi Parliament Council, 83 seats are allocated to women, also nine seats for minorities.

Turnout in Iraq's parliamentary election on Monday was 41%, the electoral commission said, in a sign of dwindling trust in political leaders although participation was not nearly as low as election officials had earlier feared.

A statement by the commission said, that "the number of voters in the delivered stations amounted to about ten million", stressing that the number of complaints in the private vote amounted to 16, and the number of complaints in the general vote was 58.



PUKmedia