10 Oct 2021

“The election was called early to meet one of the demands of nationwide protests. However, the election campaign was then totally undermined by a carefully deployed campaign of targeted assassinations against the very same protest movement that called for elections. In these circumstances, the new government will have little legitimacy and will certainly have no answers to the chronic problems, both political and economic, that Iraq faces. If the international community attempts to see this election as a success they are ignoring the violence that has dogged the campaign and the refusal of an alienated youth to participate.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/10/...
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Toby Dodge

   Professor, Political Scientist

Iraq watcher and professor of international relations at the London School of Economics

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Considerations regarding the Iraq 2021 elections

Elections in Iraq

Iraq anti-government protests

Iraq politics