On 10 October, Iraq held parliamentary elections, its fifth under the 2005 Constitution. Advance special voting took place on 8 October for, inter alia, the security forces, internally displaced persons, prisoners and detainees.
In line with its mandate, UNAMI deployed 150 international monitoring experts and approximately 550 national support personnel in advance of, and on, election day.
This note is issued pursuant to the Report of the Secretary-General on Iraq’s Electoral Process S/2021/932 which announced that a more detailed analysis of collected monitoring data would be published in due course.