Iraq's electoral commission: 'Election date is certain'

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Iraq's electoral commission: 'Election date is certain'

Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission announced on Friday that the date for holding early general elections next October is "certain and will not be reversed." Over the past days, Iraqi politicians from different parliamentary blocs have expressed their concerns about the electoral commission's inability to hold early elections on the scheduled date. The concerns regard the state decision to control arms circulation in the country and the…