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)
A man rides a scooter along a roundabout past electoral banners for KDP candidates running in Iraq's October 2021 elections in Kurdistan Region's Zakho province, Oct. 5, 2021. (Photo: Ismael Adnan/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)
An IHEC employee assists a Kurdish man in capital Erbil to cast his vote for Iraq's early parliamentary elections, Oct. 10, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi casts his vote during parliamentary elections in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021. (Photo: Khalid Mohammed/AP)
The Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani raises his inked finger after casting his vote in Erbil, Oct. 10, 2021. (Photo: Screengrab/Kurdistan24)