Kirkuk / NINA / – The representative of the Iraqi Turkmen Front, Arshad Al-Salihi, accused the United Nations Office for Electoral Affairs and the Board of Commissioners of being involved with political parties in order to disrupt the electoral process in Kirkuk governorate.

Al-Salihi said in a statement that “everyone called for transparent elections, far from fraud, and political interference in the affairs of the Electoral Commission.”

He added, “We in the Iraqi Turkmen Front were the first sit-ins after the 2018 elections were rigged for a whole month, until it became clear to the media and the world the level of fraud in the technical bodies or the presence of influential political parties within the Electoral Commission, who forged, as well as the reports of the intelligence, Intelligence and National Security Service in the era of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi proved that.”

He continued, “As for today, we are hoping for the best from the Office of Election Affairs of the United Nations as well as the Board of Commissioners, but we are surprised by the attempts to disrupt the elections in Kirkuk Governorate exclusively by UNAMI in order to impose political agendas on the Office of the Commission in Kirkuk and appoint partisan names, as the Chairman of the Council was forced accepting it without returning to the Commission.

He pointed out that “everyone knows that the commission is an independent body and cannot take its decision unilaterally. There is a decision imposed on the president of the commission by one of the influential judges in the political parties, a Kurdish judge who made changes based on the air of this party.”

He cited saying, “The names written in the ministerial order belong to the Kurdish parties and not to the commission.”

Al-Salihi held the United Nations and the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners responsible for this measure.

He called on the Parliamentary Legal Committee to “investigate the matter.”/ End

Source: National Iraqi News Agency