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Turkmens Win Only One Seat in Kerkuk
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Turkmens Win Only One Seat in Kerkuk
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22 January 2006, Sunday
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The ITF made an alliance with the Sunnis in Musul (Mosul), where Turkmens won 30,000 votes, leading to the election of Izzettin Abdallah Hussein as a member to the parliament, reporters said.
The final results of the December 15 polls that will lead to the formation of a permanent parliament in the post Saddam period in Iraq was released on Friday.
The Shiite alliance received the majority of votes, though not enough to rule the country alone.
Of the 275 seats, the United Shiite Alliance won 128, while the Kurdish Coalition received 53. Sunnis, however, obtained 55 seats, though they boycotted last year's elections. The Iraqi Turkmen Front (ITF) had won three seats, a figure equal to 93,000 votes, in the January polls, but won only one seat this time. Five Kurdish, three Arab, and one Turkmen candidates were elected the representatives of Kerkuk ( Kirkuk), a city of Iraq where hot electoral disputes flourished before and after the ballots. Another four Turkmen candidates will expectedly be elected as parliamentarians, reporters said.
The ITF made an alliance with the Sunnis in Musul (Mosul), where Turkmens won 30,000 votes, leading to the election of Izzettin Abdallah Hussein as a member to the parliament, reporters said.
It is only Sadettin Ergec, the ITF leader, who managed to be elected as a new comer, whereas Hussein will resign to join the ITF soon, officials expect.
Abbas Bayati, a candidate from Bagdat (Bahgdad) and Taqi al-Mawla from Mosul are the other Turkmen elected as new Iraqi Turkmen deputies.
Given the nation-wide voting ratio, another Turkmen from the Shiite list might soon make his way into the parliament, reporters informed.
It is the polling system that is considered to have caused Turkmen to have a lesser number of seats as oppose to the increase in their share of votes. This is why, officials said, there has been a shift of the seats from one party to another.
Apart from the Kurdish migration to Kirkuk, Shiite Turkmen that gravitated towards the Shiite Alliance has had a significant impact on this shift of votes.
Additionally, the annulment of a significant number of Turkmen votes cast in Turkey left Turkmen with fewer opportunities to win more seats.
The results are not correct, said Mr. Ergec, arguing there was a "planned unjust treatment of Turkmens".
"Turkmen expected to win at least 10 seats. There is an aim to decrease the influence of Turkmen on Iraq."
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