Iraqis want elections delayed
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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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Leading Iraqi political parties, including the two main Kurdish groups closely allied to the United States, have called for elections scheduled for January 30 to be postponed because of Iraq&#39;s widening violence.
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Iraq&#39;s interim Prime Minister told British media in an interview published on Monday he wanted elections to go ahead as planned in January even if violence prevented some Iraqis from voting.
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President Bush said Thursday that Iraq's elections must not be delayed from their scheduled date of Jan.
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The decision announced yesterday by Iraqi, American and United Nations officials to hold elections on Jan 30 reflected a judgment that delaying voting would further embolden insurgents and nudge Iraq closer to anarchy.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt  - Arab delegations to an  international conference on Iraq said on Monday it might turn  out better to delay Iraqi elections beyond January to ensure  full participation.
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Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi, urged the United Nations yesterday to do &quot;whatever it takes&quot; to make sure democratic elections come off as planned in January.
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BAGHDAD, 23 November 2004 - Some Arab delegations at a meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh, with counterparts from Iraqâs neighbors and the United States among others, yesterday said it may be better to delay the polls in Iraq to ensure full participation.
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Security deterioration forces rethink in election date, US President hopes date would not be changed. By Rouba Kabarra - BAGHDAD. Iraq&#39;s electoral commission said it would examine Saturday a request by 10
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Iraq&#39;s electoral commission says it will consider a call by top political parties to delay January elections because of violence gripping the country.
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Their comments follow calls by Sunni Muslim politicians and others to postpone the Jan. 30 election. Yesterday, 17 Iraqi political parties representing Sunni Arabs, Kurds, Christians and secular groups demanded a six-month delay.
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Leading Sunni Muslim politicians Thursday urged postponement of the Jan. 30 national elections, and a senior official said the government had agreed to meet outside the country with Saddam Hussein supporters to try to convince them to abandon the insurgency.
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More than 15 leading Iraqi parties called on Friday to delay the scheduled January elections by atleast six months, the Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV reported.
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Iraq's president urged the United Nations Tuesday to look into whether the country should go ahead with its scheduled Jan. 30 election despite violence threatening to scare voters away from the polls.
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Efforts to organize Iraqi immigrants to cast absentee ballots in their homeland's elections are beset by delays in planning and logistical obstacles.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A group of leading political parties on Friday called for a six-month delay to the Jan. 30 parliamentary elections, expressing concerns that widening violence would make voting impossible in large swaths of Iraq.
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Fifteen political groups called today for a six-month postponement of elections scheduled for Jan. 30, giving a huge boost to a movement largely led by Sunni Arabs aimed at delaying the vote.