Iraq’s prime minister says early elections to be held in June 2021
Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi said parliamentary elections will be held June 6, 2021.
Iraq’s prime minister said today that he would be calling early parliamentary elections, carrying out a key pledge he made to protesters.
“We will do our best to make the election happen and protect it,” Mustafa al-Kadhimi said in announcing June 6, 2021, as the date.
Ending months of political deadlock, Kadhimi took office in May and promised to organize early elections. The country’s former intelligence chief replaced Adel Abdul Mahdi, who resigned in late November during widespread anti-government protests.
Hussein al-Hindawi, the prime minister’s election adviser, told Al-Monitor on Wednesday that there was “technically a possibility” to organize elections before the next regularly scheduled elections in 2022. The Iraqi parliament still needs to ratify the new voting date.
