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Iraqi Provincial Election Campaigns Begin

The electoral campaigns are starting for the April 2013 elections, with calls from senior clerics for clean campaigning by candidates, writes Mustafa al-Kadhimi.
An Iraqi policeman stands guard next to election candidates posters in Baghdad March 3, 2010. Iraq will hold a parliamentary election on Sunday that could set it on a path to greater peace and prosperity or throw it back into the bloodshed and chaos that almost tore it apart in the seven years since the U.S. invasion. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - RTR2B68L
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A few days ago, provincial electoral campaigns were launched in 14 Iraqi governorates. The provinces of the Kurdistan region and Kirkuk were not included.

As personal, political and familial propaganda reigned, election platforms tackling the development and the lack of services were — as usual — absent. The political parties and candidates did not present any real approach to the endemic problems, nor did they suggest mechanisms for solutions.

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