No Winner in Iraq Election Compromise

"In the eyes of the locals, Sunnis were the winners of the political battle," Khalid Jaffer, a political analyst who also works as government’s consultant, told IslamOnline.net.

"But we know that at the end of the process, Shiites will be able to overcome the problem and respond for the majority of seats," he contends.

"And after the polls, even if Sunnis try to boycott their decisions, being in majority and with Kurds support, they will follow with their own calendar without Sunnis interventions."

After weeks of wrangling that led to the postponing of the January elections, lawmakers finally agreed upon a new election law, paving the way for the vote to take place.

Authorities have since declared March 6 as the Election Day.

Elections was first postponed after Vice-President Tarek al-Hashemi, a Sunni, vetoed an earlier draft of the law over failure to give fair representation to Iraqis who fled the country after the 2003 invasion, mostly Sunnis.

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