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Saddam wins presidential referendum
Baghdad, Oct 16: Saddam Hussein won another seven-year term as Iraq`s president in a referendum in which he was the sole candidate, taking 100 per cent of the vote, the Iraqi leader`s right-hand man announced today.
Baghdad, Oct 16: Saddam Hussein won another seven-year term as Iraq's president in a referendum in which he was the sole candidate, taking 100 per cent of the vote, the Iraqi leader's right-hand man announced today.
All 11,445,638 of the eligible voters cast ballots, Izzat Ibrahim, vice chairman of the revolutionary command council that is Iraq's key decision-making body.
"This is a unique manifestation of democracy which is superior to all other forms of democracies even in these countries which are besieging Iraq and trying to suffocate it," Ibrahim said at a news conference in Baghdad, apparently referring to the United States.
The White House had dismissed the one-man race in advance, and the results seemed to bear out the criticism. To get a vote total at all -- let alone a 100 per cent "yes" vote -- Iraqi officials would have had to gather and count millions of paper ballots, some from remote areas far from Baghdad. Bureau Report
All 11,445,638 of the eligible voters cast ballots, Izzat Ibrahim, vice chairman of the revolutionary command council that is Iraq's key decision-making body.
"This is a unique manifestation of democracy which is superior to all other forms of democracies even in these countries which are besieging Iraq and trying to suffocate it," Ibrahim said at a news conference in Baghdad, apparently referring to the United States.
The White House had dismissed the one-man race in advance, and the results seemed to bear out the criticism. To get a vote total at all -- let alone a 100 per cent "yes" vote -- Iraqi officials would have had to gather and count millions of paper ballots, some from remote areas far from Baghdad. Bureau Report