Election Statement
Resources
Focus Group Report and NDI Poll: Iraqi Views on Politics, Sectarianism and Women, February - March 2011
Focus groups conducted in January suggest that, although Iraqis continued to have an optimistic view toward their country’s democracy, they had significant grievances about the lack of job opportunities and services that they expected from the government. Iraqis continued to question the self-interested motives of the political elites and pointed to administrative corruption and government appointments as prime examples of politicians putting their own interests ahead of the people’s.
Iraqis Discouraged by Post‐Election Government Negotiations
In a public opinion survey of 4,000 respondents conducted by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in late June 2010, the frustration of the Iraqi people with the prolonged negotiations over the formation of a new government was evident. The poll also showed that a large majority of Iraqi citizens believed that the country was heading in the wrong direction.
