Iraq announces new election date

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09 December,2009 11:44 am

Iraq has postponed the country's parliamentary elections by one day to March 7, Nasser al-Ani, the presidential chief-of-staff, has said on Iraqi state television. There was an agreement to hold the elections on March 6, al-Ani told al-Iraqiya television on Tuesday. But another meeting in the afternoon studied the case and decided to postpone it for one day only until the 7th of March. Tomorrow the presidential decree will be issued to ratify the electoral law, he said.Iraqi authorities had originally set March 6 as the date for the parliamentary polls, the second such vote since Saddam Hussein, Iraqs deposed ruler, was ousted by a US-led invasion in 2003. Officials were forced to postpone the elections after lawmakers spent months wrangling over a new law that provides guidelines for the landmark vote in Iraq.