Shi'ite List Comes Top in Iraqi Election
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An alliance of Shi'ite Islamist groups  won the most votes in Iraq's election, but the percentage it  received -- 47.6 percent -- was lower than many expected,  according to the final tally released on Sunday.
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Fatah al-Sheik, an acolyte of Moktada al-Sadr, is the leader of a newly formed slate that is competing in Iraq's national elections.
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A Shi'ite Islamist bloc won Iraq's  first election since Saddam Hussein's overthrow, sealing the  political resurgence of the nation's long-oppressed majority.
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Key political players in Iraq's election:
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BAGHDAD.âThe main Iraqi Sunni political grouping, the moderate Iraqi Islamic party (IIP), today withdrew its list of candidates for the January 30 elections, on a day once again full of violence in which 13 people died in an attack in Baghdad, DPA
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BAGHDAD - Iraqâs majority Shiites yesterday unveiled a broad electoral alliance in a move likely to leave them with the lionâs share of the vote in next monthâs landmark polls for a transitional government.
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Iraq's main Sunni Muslim party, which  had threatened to boycott Iraq's first free election on Jan.  30, is among 79 parties and blocs that have registered lists  for the poll, election officials said.
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A suicide car bomber hit one of Iraq&#39;s biggest Shi&#39;ite Muslim parties running in elections next month, killing nine people but missing its leader, hours
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Iraq's main Shi'ite alliance debated  Monday who to choose as prime minister and which allies to seek  after failing to win an absolute majority in landmark  elections.
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Key players and parties who figure prominently in Iraq's first national election since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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Iraq's main Shi'ite alliance favors  Dawa Party leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari to become the country's  next prime minister, a senior Shi'ite political source said on  Tuesday.
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MARK COLVIN: To Iraq where the Shi&#39;ite leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani is on his way back to the holy city of Najaf, with around ten thousand followers joining his convoy from Basra in Iraq&#39;s south.
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Backed by Iraq&#39;s Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the political coalition of 228 candidates is expected to sweep next month&#39;s elections.
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Iraq's main Shi'ite alliance, fresh from winning landmark elections, gathered on Monday to choose a candidate for prime minister and the allies it needs after failing to win an absolute majority.
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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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The top vote-getters in Iraq's national elections huddled Monday to bargain over posts in the next government, and Kurdish parties appeared in a pivotal position to install the first president of their ethnic minority in Iraq's history.
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The election gave a Shiite Islamist slate more than 47 percent, a Kurdish alliance 25 percent, and Allawi's list 14 percent.