Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
Elections have consequences.
Elections are about choices.
Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.
In some countries that are darlings of the West, like Egypt, everyone knows the result of national elections years in advance: The man in power always wins. In others, like Saudi Arabia, the very idea of an election is unthinkable.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Every election matters. Anyone that tells you otherwise doesn't understand politics. That said, not every election sends sweeping messages that are easy to discern, but every election provides lessons worth learning.
Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life.
What's the point of elections if everything is already decided?