ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Iraq’s elections body announced Monday that it would begin the voter registry update process tomorrow and will last one month, including first-time voter registrations.
“The update process will include first-time registrations, additions, corrections, changes, deletions, the registration of displaced persons, and the registration of security forces," the Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) said in a statement.
Iraq is set to hold parliamentary elections in October.
At least 25 million Iraqis were eligible to vote in the 2021 parliamentary elections.
The October parliamentary elections will mark the sixth of its kind since the 2003 US-led invasion, with the 2021 parliamentary elections seeing a record low turnout at 36 percent.
The Iraqi Parliament in early January voted to extend the term of the Board of Commissioners of Iraq’s electoral body by two years.
The IHEC, a constitutional institution established under Article 102 of the Iraqi Constitution, for the first time, conducted the Kurdistan Region’s parliamentary elections in October 2024.
The Board of Commissioners consists of nine members, including seven first-class and two second-class judges. Two of the first-class judges are selected by the Kurdistan Region’s Judicial Council, and the remaining seven judges are selected by the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council.
The parliament last extended the commission’s term by six months in July last year to allow the body to conduct the Kurdistan Region’s parliamentary elections in October 2024. The term expired on January 5.
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