An Iraqi election official said on Sunday that the long-awaited provincial elections would be held on Jan. 31.
"The provincial elections would be held on January 31. Elections in Baghdad and other provinces will take place in one day as long as security is stable in the country," the state-run National Media Center quoted administrative director of the Iraqi High Electoral Committee as saying.
"The electoral campaigns would be launched at the beginning of December this year and would continue for the next two months," Qassim al-Aboudi said.
On Oct. 7, Iraqi presidential council approved the provincial election law after being passed earlier by the Iraqi parliament.
The law called for vote in no later than Jan. 31, 2009.
The elections for provincial councils were scheduled to be held on Oct. 1, but the Iraqi parliament failed to pass the election bill because of the disputes over how the polls should be conducted in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk.
The latest version of the bill postponed the elections in Kirkuk until a parliamentary fact-finding committee ends its mission in the province and submit its report to the parliament.
The committee mission is to watch power-sharing and revise demographic changes and violations on private properties before and after 2003, and accordingly, there would be a separate law for the elections in the province.
Source:Xinhua
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