{"id":8580,"date":"2014-04-17T13:05:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T13:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=8580"},"modified":"2014-04-17T13:09:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T13:09:51","slug":"ayatollah-sistani-not-backing-specific-candidates-in-upcoming-iraq-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/ayatollah-sistani-not-backing-specific-candidates-in-upcoming-iraq-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayatollah Sistani not backing specific candidates in upcoming Iraq elections"},"content":{"rendered":"
The senior Iraqi Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani, denied political leanings towards any specific candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections in the Arab country, spokesman for the Sadr bloc has said.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency on Sunday, Sheikh Salah al-Ubaidi, the spokesperson for al-Sadr political movement, expressed the impartiality of Grand Ayatollah Sistani in the forthcoming parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n

According to Ubaidi, Ayatollah Sistani has underlined that \u201che will not support any specific candidate\u201d and has only called for \u201cfree and transparent elections.<\/p>\n

\u201dThe prominent Iraqi cleric has reportedly made the comments in a Sunday meeting with the renowned political figure, Muqtada al-Sadr, in Iraq.<\/p>\n

Iraq’s parliamentary elections are scheduled for April 30. The polls will elect the 328 members of the Council of Representatives who will in turn elect the Iraqi president and prime minister.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, campaigning has begun for the upcoming elections, with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki seeking a third consecutive term in office.<\/p>\n

However, no single bloc is expected to win a majority of the seats in the Council of Representatives.<\/p>\n

Source: Tasnim News<\/p>\n

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The senior Iraqi Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani, denied political leanings towards any specific candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections in the Arab country, spokesman for the Sadr bloc has said. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency on Sunday, Sheikh Salah al-Ubaidi, the spokesperson for al-Sadr political movement, expressed the impartiality of Grand …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[413,162,50,233,163],"class_list":["post-8580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-scientists-news","tag-elections","tag-headline","tag-iraq-2","tag-sistani","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8580"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8589,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions\/8589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}