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An Iraqi Kurdish man leaves a voting booth before casting his ballot during the Kurdistan’s legislative election at a polling station on September 21, 2013 in the northern Kurdish city of Arbil. (AFP/ PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

Kurdish KDP official “sorry” for PUK election failure

by Ma'ad Fayad | Sep 25, 2013 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Kurdistan parliamentary elections’ preliminary results have drawn a mixed reaction from supporters of the main parties. The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) said they would have preferred their party to have had a large enough makority to...

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Employees of the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) take part in vote counting at an analysis centre in Erbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region, about 230 miles north of Baghdad, on September 22, 2013. (REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani)

Kurdistan parliamentary elections preliminary results show KDP ahead

by Sherzad Shekhani | Sep 23, 2013 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The preliminary results of Saturday’s parliamentary elections in Kurdistan have suggested that the opposition Movement for Change (Gorran) has made significant gains in areas known to be strongholds of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)....