Word from Iraq is that there is now a parliamentary investigation into last July’s elections in Iraqi Kurdistan. Faraj al-Haidari, head of the Independent Election Commission of Iraq, has been summoned to appear in Baghdad to address evidence showing that he had accepted money from Masud Barzani, the head of the Kurdistan Democratic party, whose party militia was at the center of several unresolved incidents of vote tampering.

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Perhaps it’s time for local Kurdish representative Qubad Talabani to revisit his dismissiveness about allegations of vote fraud?