Domestic Fragmentation and Geopolitical Flux Mark Upcoming Iraqi Elections

Iraqis will vote Nov. 11 in the country’s sixth parliamentary elections since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s Baath regime in 2003. Nearly 8,000 candidates from around 90 electoral tickets are running for Iraq’s 329 parliamentary seats, with about 21.5 million registered voters (about a quarter of the country’s 29 million eligible voters are not registered). The very act of holding elections would be a remarkable achievement, demonstrating a continued commitment to electoral politics in a country mired […]