Farid Ayar Quotations

If we have a serious violation at four polling stations, that is not many voters.

Whatever the results of the referendum are ... it is a civilized step that aims to put Iraq on the path of true democracy.

There is an enthusiasm to vote. Even in the last month we have registered one million more people,

We are going to recheck things to be absolutely sure. We should have results in a few days, maybe by Friday.

We intend to reach the highest international standards, so that all the referendum results will be fair and transparent.

The preparation and the process of guaranteeing Iraqis a vote since January has been difficult, due to security issues. But despite these huge challenges, we achieved our objective and managed to hold the follow up election in December.

There is no result, and the figures you see reported in the media are wrong.

We will cancel the results of any polling center, inside or outside of Iraq, if it has been proven that there was fraud in there. To this day, I don't think there is a reason to cancel the entire elections.

What can the insurgents do that's worse? There are already car bombs every day.

We are still awaiting the results of the audit from the provinces which we have selected randomly.

We didn't invent these figures. It took us a long time to get them.

The total number of eligible voters is 15.5 million, ... and we expect the turn-out to reach 11 or 12 million.

It's true that more than 1,000 complaints have been raised so far, many of them in the capital. But these won't be enough to change the overall results.

The number of whose who took part in the ballot should be between 10 and 11 million voters, according to our first estimates.

If there is any result over 90 percent it is better to investigate those again. We are reviewing all the numbers, yes and no.

The final results won't be ready and ratified until a few days into next January after completing the investigation into all complaints.

The final results will not be announced before the beginning of next year because we have more than 1,000 complaints.