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Weekend: Iraqis head to the polls

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10/10/2021 GMT

Iraqis head to the polls

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Parliamentary elections are being held early in Iraq, in response to widespread pro-democracy protests that erupted in 2019. We hear what it's like living in the country today as it struggles to democratise. 

Also in the programme: former President Donald Trump returned to Iowa for a campaign-style rally. And the Czech Prime Minister's party has narrowly lost to the Together coalition. 

Our panellists this week are Jana Puglierin, German political analyst and head of European Council on Foreign Affairs in Berlin and Bulama Bukarti, Nigerian analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change here in London.

(Picture: A demonstrator waves an Iraqi flag during an anti-government protest in Baghdad, Iraq May 25, 2021. Credit: REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani)

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