Delay looks likely for Iraq elections, currently set for May

Iraq may wind up postponing its elections, currently set for the spring, because the legislature's lengthy struggle to pass a new elections law has extended beyond a constitutional deadline. Not everyone would be upset by a delay.
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A voter shows her ink-stained finger at a polling station during a parliamentary election in Baghdad, Iraq, April 30, 2014. - REUTERS/Wissm al-Okili
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Omar Sattar
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BAGHDAD — It's beginning to look like Iraq won't make it to the polls on time — again.

Though Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi just announced Dec. 5 that parliamentary and local elections will be held even earlier than scheduled — on May 12 instead of May 15, to avoid a conflict with Ramadan — several events may be coalescing to delay voting.

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