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80% of expats vote in Jordan
The turnout of Iraqi expatriate voters in Jordan has reached 80 per cent, an election official said yesterday in Jordan, where Iraq's vice president cast his ballot.
- AP
- Published: 23:31 May 3, 2009
Amman: The turnout of Iraqi expatriate voters in Jordan has reached 80 per cent, an election official said yesterday in Jordan, where Iraq's vice president cast his ballot.
"I hope the government that will be formed will be a proponent of national unity," said Vice-President Gazi Al Yawar after voting yesterday in an upscale suburb of Amman. "I hope Iraq finds prosperity and security under the new government."
Turnout has been high in Jordan's 13 polling centres, which include one at a US-run desert camp where Iraqi police cadets are being trained.
Ali Mohammad Saeed, a senior official with the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, which is supervising the foreign vote, said that the turnout of Iraqi expatriate voters in Jordan had reached 80 per cent during the three days of polling that ended yesterday.
Saeed declined to give an estimate for the total number of eligible voters in the kingdom. But in the previous Iraqi elections held in January, there were 180,000 eligible Iraqis who registered to vote in Jordan.
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