Top Iraqi Shi&#39;ite Party Insists on Timely Election
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One of Iraq&#39;s most powerful Shi&#39;ite Muslim parties said on Saturday any delay to planned Jan. 30 elections would be a victory for insurgents trying to wreck the process.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt  - Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said elections will be held on time in his country on January 30 &quot;whatever the situation&quot;.
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Iraq's interim government voiced  confidence Monday that an election scheduled for Jan. 30 will  go ahead despite violence and intimidation in some areas and a  threat of a boycott by the once dominant Sunni minority.
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While calls mount among Sunnis to  postpone this month's Iraqi election, the reclusive Shi'ite  leader Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani is mobilizing thousands of  clerics to get out the vote.
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There must be no delay in holding the scheduled elections in Iraq . The voting must take place on the day that was chosen, January 30, 2005, and if must take place throughout the country.
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&quot;It will be positive to hold Iraqi elections on time ... and protect the interests of all political, ethnic and sectarian. their own significant Shi&#39;ite populations could demand more influence.
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PARIS : Iraq&#39;s elections will go ahead as scheduled in January even if some Iraqis are unable to vote due to the security situation in the country, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said in an interview published in the several western daily newspapers.
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The United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) slate announced in Baghdad on Thursday is backed by the country&#39;s revered Shiite leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, and now looks favored to win Iraq&#39;s first free election in decades, planned for January 30.
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More than a dozen Iraqi political parties want elections in Iraq postponed until security at the polls can be guaranteed, but President Bush said Thursday the Jan. 30 date for elections is firm and should not be changed.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Top Shi'ite clerics, emboldened by what they perceive as a massive turnout by their followers for the coalition of Shi'ite religious parties, have already directed their attention to advocating for an Islamic constitution, several of them said in the aftermath of Sunday's election.
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A coalition fielding 228 candidates and supported by Iraq&#39;s top Shiite cleric has been formed to compete in the January 30 national elections.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Seventeen Iraqi political parties demanded postponement of the Jan. 30 elections for at least six months until the government is capable of securing polling places.
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The Iraqi government Saturday brushed aside Sunni Muslim demands to delay the Jan. 30 election, and a spokesman for the majority Shiite community called the date &quot;nonnegotiable
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Iraq&#39;s leading Shiite political groups formally announced today that they had formed an alliance to run in the national elections set for late January, saying their
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Iraq's main Shia Muslim coalition is ahead as counting continues in the landmark elections, officials say.
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A top US military official in charge of the Middle East says coalition forces will do all they can to ensure Iraqi elections set for late January will go ahead.
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Despite relentless violence Iraqi main Shiite Muslim parties have rejected demands of secular poiticians and Sunni Moslems to postpone the poll and called on Saturday for elections to go ahead on Jan. 30 as scheduled.