ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq—The Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) said voter turnout was increasing in the last hours of the Kurdistan Region’s parliamentary elections.

 

“The voter turnout in the election is increasing,” Aysar Yasin, an IHEC official told The New Region on Sunday afternoon.

 

Yasin added they had not faced any “big problems” in the process.

 

“Whatever problem arises, we will resolve it,” he said.

 

Commenting on complaints that some voters have had fingerprint identification issues on the voting machines, Yasin said “This problem has to do with the voters themselves.”

 

The Iraqi electoral body said they had not received any complaints regarding the voting process from the political parties and observers monitoring the polling stations.  

 

The Kurdistan Region held its long-delayed parliamentary elections on Sunday.

 

Polling stations across the Kurdistan Region were opened at 7 am and will close at 6 pm.

 

A total of 2,683,618 people are eligible to vote in the elections on Sunday.

 

A total of 1,191 candidates are vying for 100 seats. Five seats are reserved for minorities—three for Christians and the remaining two for Turkmen.