Iraq sets March 6 for parliament elections

Iraq's three-member presidential council has set March 6 as the date for the country's parliamentary elections next year.

The head of Iraq's election commission, Faraj al-Haidari, said Tuesday the council approved postponing the elections from January 16 to give officials enough time to organize the vote, the Associated Press reported.

The vote was delayed after lawmakers spent months wrangling over a stalled electoral law that was finally adopted Sunday.

The new law sidesteps a second veto that Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi had threatened, and comes just hours before a midnight deadline for Hashemi to torpedo the law.

He had vetoed a previous version of the law last month.

Source: PressTV.
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