Hundreds protest new proposed election law in Baghdad

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
Associated Press

BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in Baghdad to denounce a draft elections law that would increase the size of the country’s electoral districts. The current legislation, under which the 2021 election was held, breaks up each of the country’s 18 provinces into several electoral districts. The law, which was a key demand of the hundreds of thousands of protesters who took to the streets in late 2019, was seen as giving independent candidates a better chance at winning. Parliament is now considering a draft law that would return Iraq to having one electoral district per governorate.