SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Iraq’s federal court on Monday approved the final results of the October parliamentary election, after denying an appeal from al-Fateh Alliance to annul the results.
On November 30, the Iraqi electoral commission announced the final results of the October 10 parliamentary election, confirming Sadrist movement’s victory as the biggest bloc, with 73 seats in the 329-seat house.
The Taqqadum Party, which draws support from minority Sunni Muslims, won 37 seats, according to the final results.
Former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s State of Law Alliance won 33 seats, the results showed. A distant second with 17 seats was the al-Fateh Alliance, the political arm of Hashid al-Shaabi.
Hashid al-Shaabi leaders have rejected the results as a “fraud”.
Al-Fateh Alliance filed a case at the federal supreme court, asking the court to annul the results.
The federal denied the appeal earlier on Monday.
According to the alliance, the electronic voting system had failed to recognize the finger print identification of many voters.
U.N. special representative Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert has noted that “so far and as stated by the Iraqi judiciary, there is no evidence of systemic fraud”.
