The special voting process for the Kurdistan Regional Parliament elections has begun.
The special voting process for the Kurdistan Regional Parliament elections has begun since 7:00 am on Friday, October 18th , 2024, as the centers opened their doors in 165 centers distributed as follows: 62 centers in Erbil, 57 centers in Sulaymaniyah, 33 centers in Dohuk, and one center in Halabja, in addition to 4 centers in Nineveh, one center in each of Salah al-Din, Anbar, Kirkuk, Wasit, Diyala, Baghdad al-Rusafa, and two centers in Karkh.
The number of polling stations reached 749 stations, and the number of voters for the special vote is 215,960 two hundred and fifteen thousand nine hundred and sixty voters who are entitled to vote, and the voting process will continue until 6:00 pm, when the devices will be automatically closed, and the manual counting and sorting process will begin in the polling centers.
It is worth noting that the Tammuz Organization for Social Development is monitoring the special voting process with more than 200 observers distributed across the polling stations. The monitoring is taking place within the framework of the Alliance of National Networks and Organizations to Monitor the Kurdistan Regional Parliament Elections and within the Democracy and Transparency Project” Enabling Civic Participation and Media Freedom” in partnership with the Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) and with the support of the European Union. It is worth noting that the monitoring is taking place on a long-term basis starting from the stage of approving the election law and continues until the general voting elections on October 20th, monitoring the counting, sorting and auditing, and reaching the final announcement of the election results. October 18th, 2024
