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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 .