Friday, March 5, 2010
Government departments have closed their doors and schools turned into polling stations
Millions of voters are preparing to participate in elections to the House of Representatives
بغداد – صفاء عبد الهادي BAGHDAD - Safaa Abdel-Hadi
Government departments have closed their doors yesterday and turned the schools to polling stations waiting to receive the voters who vote for candidates in general elections on Sunday in one of the largest demonstrations of democracy, which is expected to witness participation of more than 15 million voters across the country's provinces.
Mobilizing all the security forces, with a heavy police forces deployed to protect polling stations, and closed roads leading to polling stations scattered throughout Baghdad and most other provinces.
The government has announced a five-day official holiday for all civil services began on Thursday on the occasion of the elections.
The pupils and students left their classes in order to make way for voters to review the schools, most of which have to polling stations.
Are competing for the 325 is the number of seats in the House of Representatives, about 6200 candidates, including more than 1700 women, representing all 12 coalitions, 74 political entity.
According to Director of School of the Green Belt in the city of people Dalal Shakir Hussein: that the school turned into a polling station with seven polling stations.
The Dalal Shaker, and is working at the same time employee polling station No. 3, the preparations of several held with the Electoral Commission to create the school building and the polling stations after you disable the part of students.
She noted that UNHCR has distributed yesterday polling staff between all the stations as a last resort in preparation for Election Day, which falls on Sunday, noting that these and other employees participated in numerous sessions for the management of the electoral process to ensure a transparent and fair practice for the success of this process.
Mrs. Dalal and predicted that the elections will witness wide participation, asserting that there are a lot of voters were in the past few days reviewing the headquarters of the school to make sure that names on the lists prepared by the Commission.
The streets of Baghdad on less busy days of normal working hours due to a breakdown in government departments, schools and universities, but it has seen widespread and clear to the army and police forces that have been taken to tighten security measures have been searching cars and pedestrians.
The Supreme Security Committee of the election has taken emergency measures which it decided to close the entrances to and exits from the provinces ten o'clock on the evening of Saturday until the fifth dawn Monday, as well as a curfew the night of the tenth time in the evening and until five days from the dawn of the sixth, seventh and eighth of March, corresponding to Saturday and Sunday and Monday, in addition to ... the closure of international crossings land, sea and airports from the twelfth to the seventh night of March and until five the next morning.
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