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October 21, 2005
Tough year for new constitutions
BBC News is running an article about how long it's taking to count the votes in the Iraqi referendum on the proposed constitution there. It appears there were some irregularities, and even the officials were unclear on what exactly the predictions should be.
Provisional results indicate that two Sunni Arab-dominated provinces have rejected the constitution, but that a third province did not apparently reach the two-thirds threshold needed.Two-thirds of voters in three provinces must reject it for the constitution to fail.
During a visit to London last week, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said initial information from the field indicated the constitution had been backed, though she later retracted her statement.
The deputy speaker of the Iraqi National Assembly, Hussein al-Shahristani, announced in a speech in Najaf on Wednesday that the draft constitution had been approved.
My bet is that the constitution will eventually be approved, although it'll take the authorities some time to get the count straight. Especially if the initial count turned out wrong with respect to the way it was supposed to turn out.
Posted by Mark at October 21, 2005 10:13 PM
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