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Iraq approves 2010 election law: official
(AFP)
8 November 2009
8 November 2009
BAGHDAD - Iraqi MPs on Sunday approved a law to govern the country’s general election due in early 2010, paving the way to agree a date for the vote, said the parliament’s vice president.
Khaled al-Attiya said on state television 141 of the 195 members present voted for the document.
The election is viewed as crucial to consolidating the war-torn nation’s fledgling democracy ahead of a withdrawal of US combat troops by August next year and a complete pullout by the end of 2011.
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