Iraqi parties announced their intention to appeal the results of the early legislative elections, condemning the occurrence of "manipulation" and "fraud".
The Al -Fateh Alliance, which represents the popular crowd, recorded a significant decline in the new parliament, according to the preliminary results.
"We announce our appeal with the results announced and we will not accept them and we will take all available measures to prevent the manipulation of the votes."
Abu Ali Al -Askari, a spokesman for the Hezbollah Brigades, one of the most influential popular crowd factions in a statement that "what happened in the elections represents the largest fraud and the circumvention of the Iraqi people in modern history."
On the other hand, supporters of the Sadrist movement celebrated the emergence of its progress in the initial results, and the streets of the streets of the capital Baghdad roamed the Iraqi flags and pictures of Muqtada al -Sadr.
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The preliminary results of the votes, announced by the Electoral Commission, showed that the Sadriya bloc won the largest number of seats, as it obtained 73 seats, followed by a bloc headed by the current parliament speaker, Muhammad Al -Halbousi (38 seats), according to the agency.
The State of Law Bloc ranked third with 37 seats.
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Shortly after announcing the results, Muqtada Al -Sadr described the elections as "the day of victory over the militias," saying that the time has come to dissolve the militias and restrict weapons to the hands of the state.
Al -Sadr called "the people to celebrate this victory with the largest bloc, but without armed manifestations."
"The absence of voters is a clear message to the political class."
"These elections were supposed to be a new start and a hypothesis to change the political scene for a different future for the country. But it seems that many (unfortunately) were not believers in this opportunity," she added.
She said, "The results can be challenged, but what we noticed from a technical point of view is that (the operation) was calm and organized, there was no technical impurities in most of the polling stations that were monitored during the election day."
"From our point of view, the process was organized and well -managed, technically it was fine, and there is no reason to launch charges" for fraud.
According to the announced results, the elections witnessed a significant decline in the gains of the Al -Fateh coalition led by Hadi al -Amiri, as the coalition succeeded in obtaining 14 seats after it had won 45 seats in the previous elections in 2018, as our delegate says to Baghdad, Firas Kilani.
On the other hand, the "State of Law" coalition close to Iran, headed by former Prime Minister Nuri al -Maliki, managed to achieve a breach in the elections, with more than 30 seats.
Experts believe that the distribution of parliament seats will lead to the absence of a clear majority, which will force the blocs to negotiate to hold alliances.
The BBC Arabic delegate indicates that the results represent a "earthquake at the level of political life in Iraq", given the tremendous change in the proportions of the votes obtained by some major alliances.
According to our correspondent, the Alliance, headed by the head of the Arab project, Khamis Al -Khanjar, has achieved good gains in the elections.
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The High Electoral Commission announced that it would start receiving appeals in the results starting from tomorrow and for a period of three days, and that it would be decided within seven days.
The Commission had said that the percentage of voting amounted to 41 percent, adding that the calculation of this percentage came with the account of those who voted from among those who owned the smart electoral card, which numbered about 22 million people, and not from the total number of those who are entitled to vote.
According to the Commission, the number of participants in the elections amounted to 9 million voters, knowing that the number of those entitled to vote amounts to about 25 million.
It is the percentage of this lowest in the country since 2005, which witnessed the first legislative elections in Iraq after its American occupation in 2003.
It is noteworthy that the turnout in the 2018 elections reached 44.5 percent, according to official figures.
The Iraqis voted to choose the deputies of their parliament from 3,200 candidates in the early elections, which are held according to a new electoral law, stipulating the unilateral vote of the council consisting of 329 seats.
Fiola von Karamon, head of the European Union's observers team, had stated earlier that the "low" percentage.
She told reporters that the decrease in the "political indicator is clear, one can only hope that it will be listened to by politicians and the political elite in Iraq."
After the end of the polling, the Supreme Security Committee for the elections said that it had issued "strict" orders to the security authorities in the capital, Baghdad, and the governorates to tighten guarding and protection procedures around polling stations, registration centers and the independent commission stores of the elections.
During the vote, technical problems emerged in some polling stations.
Press sources and eyewitnesses told the BBC that voting devices in a number of electoral centers have stopped working.
The Chairman of the Board of Commissioners in the Olaya for the elections said today that the boxes in which some problems will be transferred tomorrow morning to the National Office in the capital, Baghdad.
The sources said that "the voting devices are very sensitive, as they stop as soon as they are moved, a blackout, or an electrical defect. It also requires a secret number when trying to restart them, and the number can only be obtained from the operations center in the capital, Baghdad."
The sources pointed out that "attempts to contact the operations center are underway, but all lines are busy without a response. What led some voters to return to their homes after a long wait."
Iraq is struggling with an economic and outbreak of corruption and sectarian division.Analysts rule out that the elections, the fifth since the American invasion in 2003, will achieve a major change in the political scene in Iraq.
The elections were held six months before their original history, in a rare concession to the youth -led protest movement, which broke out in 2019 against a political class with a wide scale for the spread of graft, unemployment and collapse of public services.
Hundreds have been killed during these protests, and dozens of anti -government activists have killed, kidnapped or intimidated in recent months, with accusations of armed groups loyal to Iran of being behind violence.