Mor than a week on eruption, demonstrations protesting fraud election continue

Proponents of the parties contesting the Iraqi parliamentary election results took the streets of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, to demand a manual recount of the ballots.

Al-Ghadeer News correspondent said that the demonstrators gathered near al-Fardous Square and in al-Harithiya near the headquarters of the Supreme Judicial Council in the Iraqi capital.

The security authorities, for their part, ramped up measures and employed enforcements inside the demonstration sites.

Since last week, thousands of Iraqis and members of the Coordination Framework have been stationed near the gates of the heavily fortified Green Zone downtown Baghdad. The demonstrators voiced discontent about the election results and demanded recounting the ballots manually.