{"id":60833,"date":"2018-05-13T12:35:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T11:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=60833"},"modified":"2018-05-13T12:35:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T11:35:06","slug":"abadis-coalition-leads-iraq-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/abadis-coalition-leads-iraq-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Abadi\u2019s coalition leads Iraq polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi\u2019s coalition is leading in the country\u2019s parliamentary election, a coalition spokesman told.<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cPreliminary results show that the Victory Coalition is leading the polls,\u201d Hussein al-Adli said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a source with the Al-Wataniya Alliance, which is led by former Vice-President Iyad Allawi, said the alliance was leading in four Sunni-majority provinces.<\/p>\n<p>According to Anadolu Agency, the alliance is an umbrella of 26 political parties and blocs, including the Civil Society for Reform party of Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreliminary results show that the Alliance was leading in the provinces of Anbar, Saladin, Nineveh and Diyala,\u201d the source said on condition of anonymity because he was unauthorized to speak to media.<\/p>\n<p>Official results are expected to be announced in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Iraqis voted in the country\u2019s first parliamentary election since Iraq declared victory against the Daesh terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>According to the election commission, around 10.8 million Iraqis out of 24 million eligible voters took part in the vote, with a turnout of 44.52 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The polls were held under the shadow of economic crisis, the return of thousands of refugees, political polarization, and security concerns.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi\u2019s coalition is leading in the country\u2019s parliamentary election, a coalition spokesman told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,14],"tags":[7784,77968,2160],"class_list":["post-60833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-world","tag-election","tag-haidar-al-abadi","tag-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}