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Experts warn against early elections to decide Iraq`s future
Washington, Oct 28: Any effort to put Iraq through a hurried political process leading to settlement of the question of the future form of government and elections would create more problems than it would solve, two American political experts have warned.
Washington, Oct 28: Any effort to put Iraq through a hurried political process leading to settlement of the question of the future form of government and elections would create more problems than it would solve, two American political experts have warned.
Emerging from a forcible regime change and lawlessness of war, Iraqis will have to reach agreement on an almost overwhelming number of difficult, divisive political issues as part of the process of building a new political system, say Marina Ottaway and Thomas Carothers, senior associates of the Carnegie endowment.
The Iraqis must be allowed sufficient time to go through such a process of evolving a new political system, and they say. Hurriedly organized elections in countries emerging from civil conflict or forcible regime change, say Ottaway and Carothers, often create more problems than they solve.
Early elections, for example, in Bosnia, Liberia and Cambodia, have only created more instability.
Bureau Report
The Iraqis must be allowed sufficient time to go through such a process of evolving a new political system, and they say. Hurriedly organized elections in countries emerging from civil conflict or forcible regime change, say Ottaway and Carothers, often create more problems than they solve.
Early elections, for example, in Bosnia, Liberia and Cambodia, have only created more instability.
Bureau Report