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Deep Dive: Will provincial crises come to haunt alliances in Baghdad?
Across Iraq, governorate-level politics are broadly in a shambolic state. After being pushed back in 2019 amid anti-corruption protests, the 2023 provincial elections were framed by advocates as a way to revitalise local governance, curtail graft and re-engage the electorate.
However, the results of the polls-the first held in a decade-have instead only amplified factional rivalries in the ruling Shiite Coordination Framework.
Moreover, the profound fragility of Iraq's decentralized governance has been exposed.
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