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The religious clergy in Al-Najef announced more than one stance in one week to support the coming Iraqi elections.
    The religious clergy Ayat Allah Ali Al-Sistani asked all Iraqis to participate in the elections by registering their names in elector register and to make sure of registering their names. After few days, the head of the clergy office Hamed Al-Kafaf announced that the religious clergy was supporting an independent election manifest that includes the good smarten of Iraqis.
    This call and announcement about a religious clergy support for an independent election manifest means a lot:
1.    The clergy has retrieved from former obligation for counting inhabitants before general elections.  
2.    Accepting the elections procedure upon occupation issued laws.
3.    Accepting the independent Iraqi commission for elections as the official side and decisions needed for organizing these elections.
The clergy has become now an important side in the elections by supporting an independent election manifest. What does this mean?
    Is it a call by the clergy to Iraqis to support the Manifest on the account of the Iraqi political sides from powers and parties that allied with the occupation or the one that was established after the 9th of April 2003.
The  establishing of an independent manifest that is supported by the religious clergy in Al-Najef requires the understanding with other sides in one hand and how will the American Administration deal with this on the other hand has the religious clergy decided to gather Iraqis round it to embark its political battle with the occupation? Will the political battle be the alternative for other battles?
    All these quires were discussed in the reviewed study here under the heading.

 
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