A member of Kurdish Peshmerga security forces casts her vote in Erbil, the capital of the northern autonomous Kurdistan Region, on Oct. 8, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed / AFP)
Displaced Yazidis cast their votes for the parliamentary elections at a camp in the Sharya area, some 15 kilometres from the northern city of Dohuk in the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, on October 8, 2021. (Photo: Ismael ADNAN/AFP)
Members of Kurdish Peshmerga security forces cast their votes as he takes part in early voting for the parliamentary elections in Iraq's northern city of Sulaimani in the autonomous Kurdish region on October 8, 2021. (Photo: Shwan MOHAMMED/
Viola Von Cramon-Taubadel, Head of the EU’s Election Observation Mission, speaks at a press conference in Erbil, Sept. 18, 2021. (Photo: Rebaz Siyan/Kurdistan 24)
Officials of Iraq's electoral commission undergo a polling day simulation to test run its systems ahead of the parliamentary elections in the Kurdistan Region's Sulaimani province, Sept. 22, 2021. (Photo: Shwan Mohammed/AFP )
Supporters of Iraq's Fatah alliance -- which held the second-biggest bloc in parliament -- attend an election rally in Baghdad (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
Officials of Iraq's electoral commission undergo a polling day simulation to test run its systems ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections, in Baghdad, on Sept. 22, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)