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On Friday, Adel al-Lami, a senior member of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, denied a report by The Al-Jazeera satellite channel that all 700 workers for the electoral commission in Mosul resigned Thursday because they had been threatened.
“The report is not true,” al-Lami told The Associated Press. “Only two people resigned and they are the head of the (electoral) office in Mosul and an accountant” he said, adding that they stepped down “for personal reasons” and not because of threats.
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On Friday, Adel al-Lami, a senior member of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, denied a report by The Al-Jazeera satellite channel that all 700 workers for the electoral commission in Mosul resigned Thursday because they had been threatened.
“The report is not true,” al-Lami told The Associated Press. “Only two people resigned and they are the head of the (electoral) office in Mosul and an accountant” he said, adding that they stepped down “for personal reasons” and not because of threats.