According to preliminary results, the biggest winner of Sunday's election was the movement of Shiite cleric and political maverick Muqtada al-Sadr. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye, AFP)
Head of the European Parliament’s delegation Domenec Ruiz Devesa (left), Chief Observer of the European Union Election Observation Mission to Iraq Viola von Cramon (right), Oct. 10, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
Iraqi election officials conduct the electronic count of votes at a polling station in Erbil, the Kurdistan Region capital, on October 10, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed / AFP)
Iraqi election officials conduct the electronic count of votes at a polling station in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, on October 10, 2021. (Photo: SAFIN HAMED/AFP)
A disabled Iraqi elderly woman is helped to cast her vote during voting in early parliamentary elections at a polling station in Iraq's capital Baghdad, Oct. 10, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi casts his vote during parliamentary elections in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021. (Photo: Khalid Mohammed/AP)