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Iraq's Prime Minister Says He's Opposed to an Election Redo

Days after a warehouse storing ballot boxes for Iraq's parliamentary election caught fire, the country's prime minister says he's opposed to any repeat of the vote.

According to  reports out Tuesday , Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said: "The elections were held, there's no turning back.

We have to move forward in order to form a new government." Not long after the fire broke out,  a statement from Abadi's office  called the incident a "plot to sabotage the country and its democratic process." Some members of Iraq's parliament have called for a do-over for the May 12 elections.

Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's bloc won the vote, but a new government has yet to be formed.

Additional reporting from  Newsy affiliate CNN .




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