Baghdad, March 21: Iraq’s electoral commission rejected a call by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki for a manual recount of votes cast in the country’s March 7 polls, commission chief Faraj al-Haidari said on Sunday.
“We have provided all political entities with CDs with the results of counting at the political centres, after thorough checks on our part,” Haidari said, adding that a manual recount would take “too long.”
“If they have doubts and think that there are errors, they can ask us to hold recounts at particular centres, but not across all of Iraq.”
—Agencies