It probably was fairly fraudulent. First, nobody gets 95% of the vote without fraud unless you are running unopposed.
Second, there's a fundamental problem with a democratic election in a civil war. Your opposition can't vote for someone else if you are shooting at them.
It probably was fairly fraudulent. First, nobody gets 95% of the vote without fraud unless you are running unopposed.
Second, there's a fundamental problem with a democratic election in a civil war. Your opposition can't vote for someone else if you are shooting at them.
Hey! He's gotten 2% less than in 2006!
I'm genuinely curious if that's more or less people based on how he's measuring the percentage of votes.
Saddam just declared that literally everyone voted and all of them voted for him.
It didn't matter northern Iraqi Kurdistan wasn't even participating obviously, because he said they all voted too.