Abu Ali Al-Askari, a security official of the Hezbollah Brigades in Iraq, accused Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi and several intelligence officials of interfering in the preliminary results of legislative elections.
“We have been assured that the godfather of Iraqi elections fraud is the prime minister who is entrusted with the votes of the people,” said Al-Askari in a tweet.
“He (Al-Kadhimi) and some of his followers from the intelligence service have dared to change the election results in agreement with influential political parties,” added Al-Askari.
Al-Askari called on the judges supervising the elections to expose what he called “scandals of technical problems” in several devices used to transmit and count voters’ votes.
The statement added that what happened was a change in the number of seats obtained by some parties and adding them to others.
Al-Askari added - in the statement – “If they (judges) do not have the courage to do so, it will be revealed, and officials and experts from the specialists in the commission will be named.”
This comes at a time when several Iraqi political blocs and parties have announced their rejection of the results of the parliamentary elections announced by the Independent High Electoral Commission.
The Coordination Framework Group for a number of the most prominent Shiite political parties in Iraq said that the chaos, confusion, and inaccuracy that appeared in the past two days in presenting facts reinforce their mistrust towards the Electoral Commission.
The group added in a statement that what is happening calls for it to reiterate its rejection of the announced results and that proceeding with them threatens to endanger civil peace.
The Coordination Framework Group had announced its appeal against the preliminary results of the legislative elections and said it would take all available measures to prevent voter tampering.
