The overall results of elections to the parliament of 325 seats, made on March 7, gave 91 to former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and 89 of the current head of Nuri al-Maliki government.
These results do not guarantee to Allawi as prime minister, but only the right to try to form a coalition government.
narrow margin sets a stage for months of political confrontation has as most experienced politicians in Iraq”s young democracy, trying to build support to form a majority coalition.
The results were based on figures released by the election commission and were compiled by The Associated Press. The commission released the allocation of seats province by province, but did not include the total number of seats obtained by each coalition.
Just minutes after the results were released, al-Maliki said news conference televised nationwide that challenge them through what he described as a legal process.
The figures were broadcast just hours after twin explosions near a restaurant in a town north of Baghdad, causing at least 40 deaths, underscoring the violence that many Iraqis fear could damage the post-election process as both sides struggle to forge alliances sufficient to form a governing coalition.
highest UN authority in Iraq, Ad Melkert, said the UN believes that parliamentary elections were credible, and called on all parties to accept the results.
De expressed the same way the U.S. ambassador, Christopher R. Hill and Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. military officer in Iraq. Odierno praised what he described as a “historic election” and said they both support the view of election observers, who said they found no evidence of widespread fraud or serious.
As bomb attacks in Khalis, about 80 miles north of the capital, besides the 40 dead the blasts also wounded scores, police spokesman in the province of Diyala, Ghalib al-Karkhi captain.
Another police official, Mohammed Salah, said that one of the blasts was a car bomb and the other a suicide.
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