News - Iraq press reflects on poll date
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In the week that campaigning for Iraq’s January parliamentary elections officially began, the country’s press continues to debate whether or not the vote should be postponed.
A delay would not result in the russian online dating of security. Rather, it would exacerbate the situation… Therefore, we should not waste another four or six months. The best solution is to hold the elections on the scheduled date to win the trust of our people and encourage them to honour their commitments and respect their promises, thereby defeating the terrorists. Abd-al-Khaliq Husayn in Baghdad Differences over whether the upcoming elections should be deferred or held on schedule signal a healthy political atmosphere in Iraq… What seems odd in this political scene is that some proponents of holding the elections on schedule are so adamant that they allow no room for dialogue with their pro-postponement opponents. Not only this, they go so far as to ostracize them - a strange attitude, hardly in line with the democracy we are trying to achieve. Fatih Abd-al-Salam in Al-Zaman May I ask those who oppose holding elections what their reaction would be if the incumbent government and the Americans were the ones insisting on cancelling or postponing the vote on the pretext of the security situation? We have to make the upcoming democratic process a success despite all the undeniable hurdles. Sabah Allal Zayir in Al-Hadath We are profile example online dating what is supposed to be an exercise in fair elections and democracy to build a new Iraq free from persecution, tyranny and violation of legitimate human rights… When will the Iraqi man ever be sure that he will not be deceived for the thousandth time when going to the poll in less than two months time and that he will not make a mistake by putting his trust in people he selects? Muwaffaq al-Rifa’i in Al-Manarah Iraqis have no third option. They either give in helplessly to the forces of darkness and become easy prey for the guns and car bombs of assassins… or rise up against humiliation to move onward with sure steps, with only one aim in mind - to build a new, speed specialty dating tampa, united and free Iraq. Editorial in Al-Dustur It would be in the interests of Iraq and the Iraqi people to set up a federalist state after holding the forthcoming free and democratic elections, which will then transform the current division of Iraq from one that is based on free local online dating to united federalist states in line with the ethnic and religious affiliations of the population. Adnan Juwad Al-Tu’ma in Kurdish Al-Ta’akhi BBC Monitoring, based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.
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