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Wide of cafe and TV showing al-Haidari speaking 2. Close of TV3. Various of people watching TV4. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Vox Pop, Wissam Hussein, resident: \"We are expecting the Iraqiya bloc to win.  And it...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eBaghdad, Iraq - 26 March, 2010 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of cafe and TV showing al-Haidari speaking \u003cbr/\u003e2. Close of TV\u003cbr/\u003e3. Various of people watching TV\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Vox Pop, Wissam Hussein, resident: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We are expecting the Iraqiya bloc to win.  And it is an Iraqi demand that it is not important who wins, but we want the party which serves the Iraqi people and finds a solution for the Iraqi people.\" \u003cbr/\u003eBaghdad, Iraq - 26 March, 2010 \u003cbr/\u003e5. Various of members of IOHEC (Independent High Electoral Commission) walking into news conference, lead by chairman Faraj al-Haidari \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Faraj al-Haidari, IHEC Chairman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the name of the IHEC and myself, I congratulate the Iraqi people for this victory, because the Iraqi people are the winners who spoke on the victory day of the election on the 7th of March.\" \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: 3 March, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of campaign poster for secular Shiite and Iraqiya leader, Ayad Allawi\u003cbr/\u003e8. Men dancing at campaign rally \u003cbr/\u003e9. Band playing as crowd dance and wave flags in background\u003cbr/\u003e10. Allawi waving from the podium\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of Allawi on stage \u003cbr/\u003e12. Supporters waving flags at campaign rally \u003cbr/\u003eBaghdad, Iraq - 26 March, 2010 \u003cbr/\u003e13. Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, standing at microphone surrounded by members of his State of Law coalition\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"As an independent and non-biased committee, the IHEC (Independent High Electoral Commission) should take all complaints, all challenges, which are submitted by lists seriously, because the future of the political, democratic process, and the future of the country depends on this.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e15. Cutaway of coalition members \u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"When we checked some of the papers (election papers) we found a large percent were forged, so we handed a complaint to the IHEC and the judicial committee.  Another thing, witnesses from IHEC talked about manipulation in the election and underlined this with names and other cases, which made it clear that there was a defect, which should be dealt with through manual counting, as is done in some countries.\"  \u003cbr/\u003eDepartment of State TV\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - 26 March 2010\u003cbr/\u003e17. State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley walking to podium\u003cbr/\u003e18. Cutaway of media\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (English) PJ Crowley, State Department spokesman: \u003cbr/\u003e\"First, you know, there''s now a 10-day period of certification. And there are established procedures if any candidate has concerns about the results and wants to come forward and offer evidence to back up those concerns. There are established processes through the Electoral Commission to adjudicate that. At this point, I think our strong desire, because from our vantage point and from the international community''s vantage point, we have not seen any evidence of substantial fraud that would fundamentally change the outcome.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Cutaway of reporters\u003cbr/\u003eA jubilant Ayad Allawi claimed victory in the Iraqi elections for his secular, anti-Iranian coalition as final parliamentary returns Friday showed him edging out the bloc of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who angrily vowed to fight the results.\u003cbr/\u003eThe results, if they stand, will give Allawi the first opportunity to form a parliamentary majority and Iraq''s next government. But they do not automatically mean that he will become prime minister, and the narrow margin sets the stage for months of political wrangling.\u003cbr/\u003eRegardless of who eventually comes out on top, the results of the March 7 elections suggest that (m) millions of Iraqis are fed up with a political system that revolves around membership in one of the two major Islamic sects.\u003cbr/\u003eThey also show that Iraqis - both Shiite and Sunni - are suspicious of Iranian influence.\u003cbr/\u003eAllawi was widely seen as closer to the region''s Arab governments than to neighbouring Shiite Iran.\u003cbr/\u003eThe next prime minister will lead a government that presumably will be in power when the US completes its scheduled troop withdrawal from Iraq next year. \u003cbr/\u003eThere has been fear among some in the West that a US withdrawal would effectively leave Iraq as an Iranian puppet.\u003cbr/\u003eAl-Maliki, the US partner in Iraq for the past four years, announced in a nationally televised news conference that he would not accept the results, which gave his bloc 89 seats to Allawi''s 91 in Iraq''s 325-seat parliament.\u003cbr/\u003eGesturing angrily, he said he would challenge the vote count through what he described as legal process. By law, he would have until Monday to register his complaints with the election commission.\u003cbr/\u003eAfter the complaints are addressed by the election commission, the results may be revised and then finally submitted to the country''s Supreme Court, which must ratify them. \u003cbr/\u003eThe entire process could take weeks.\u003cbr/\u003eAl-Maliki and his supporters in his State of Law coalition had previously called for a re-count, saying there had been instances of vote rigging and fraud, but election officials had refused, and international observers have said the election was fair and credible.\u003cbr/\u003e\"From our vantage point and from the international community''s vantage point, we have not seen any evidence of substantial fraud that would fundamentally change the outcome,\" said US State Department spokesman, PJ Crowley.\u003cbr/\u003eThe news represents a spectacular turnaround for Allawi, a doctor who has spent much of his life in London as a leading member of the opposition to Saddam''s regime.\u003cbr/\u003eHe served as the US-appointed prime minister in Iraq from 2004 to 2005. During that time he made enemies for his backing of US military campaigns in both the Sunni stronghold of Fallujah and the Shiite town of Najaf - although more recently, many have praised his stand as a sign of his willingness to deal harshly with militant groups.\u003cbr/\u003eAllawi''s path to a coalition government is anything but assured. He will face significant challenges finding allies who want to align with him.\u003cbr/\u003eFriday''s results were based on numbers released by the election commission and compiled by The Associated Press. \u003cbr/\u003eThe commission released the seat allocation by province but did not include an overall number of seats won.\u003cbr/\u003eAllawi fared well in provinces with significant Sunni populations such as Ninewah, Anbar, Salaheddin, and Kirkuk, while al-Maliki won more support in areas with significant Shiite populations such as Baghdad, and much of the Shiite south.\u003cbr/\u003eSignificantly, though, Allawi did better in Shiite areas than al-Maliki did in Sunni regions. \u003cbr/\u003eAllawi managed to win three seats in the southern province of Basra, for example, that proved key to his victory.\u003cbr/\u003eHours before the results were announced, two bombings near a restaurant in a city north of Baghdad killed at least 40 people - a harbinger of a spike in violence that 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