Baghdad, April 28 (IANS)
Iraqi security personnel Monday
cast their votes across the country
ahead of
parliamentary elections April 30 amid tight security. The voting began after 7.00 a.m. local time (0400 GMT) when hundreds of soldiers and policemen lined up at polling centres across the
Iraqi capital of Baghdad and in other cities to
cast their ballots, Xinhua reported. Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) decided that security
forces vote two days
ahead of the scheduled election date in order to be free to guard polling stations on election day. The last general
elections were held March 7, 2010, which resulted in the partial victory of the
Iraqi National Movement led by former interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
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