{"id":166384,"date":"2018-06-06T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=166384"},"modified":"2018-06-06T05:29:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T09:29:00","slug":"iraq-pm-dangerous-violations-found-in-last-months-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/06\/iraq-pm-dangerous-violations-found-in-last-months-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq PM: &#8216;Dangerous violations&#8217; found in last month&#8217;s vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_130685\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130685\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Haider-al-Abadi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130685\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Haider-al-Abadi.jpg\" alt=\"During his weekly press conference on Tuesday, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the commission found \u201cwidespread manipulation\u201d and faulted election authorities for \u201cnot taking the needed measures or taking wrong ones.\u201d(Photo: Haider Al-Abadi\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Haider-al-Abadi.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Haider-al-Abadi-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Haider-al-Abadi-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Haider-al-Abadi-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-130685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">During his weekly press conference on Tuesday, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the commission found \u201cwidespread manipulation\u201d and faulted election authorities for \u201cnot taking the needed measures or taking wrong ones.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/haider.alabadi.iraq\/photos\/a.466627973632.252087.204803838632\/10154872661313633\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\">(Photo: Haider Al-Abadi\/Facebook)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BAGHDAD &#8211; Iraq&#8217;s prime minister says a commission looking into alleged irregularities in last month&#8217;s national elections has found \u201cdangerous violations,\u201d a development that could prolong the process of forming a new government.<\/p>\n<p>During his weekly press conference on Tuesday, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the commission found \u201cwidespread manipulation\u201d and faulted election authorities for \u201cnot taking the needed measures or taking wrong ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says the Cabinet approved the recommendations of the commission, which includes the heads of five security and oversight agencies as well as the head of an anti-corruption agency. Those include a manual recount of at least 5 per cent of ballots and annulling all votes from overseas and displaced voters.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Abadi called for criminal investigations, and banned election officials from travelling abroad without his approval.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD &#8211; Iraq&#8217;s prime minister says a commission looking into alleged irregularities in last month&#8217;s national elections has found \u201cdangerous &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":130685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[29664],"class_list":["post-166384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-haider-al-abadi","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}