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Election 'will make or break Iraq'

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The Iraqi electoral commission has rejected calls by Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki for a vote re-count after recent polls suggested he was behind his nearest rival Iyad Allawi.

Dr Faleh Abdul Jabar, director of the Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies based in Baghdad, analyses the country's political stability.

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