Carina Perelli Quotations

Until now, unless Mrs Rice has better information than the commission, there is no way to know the turnout figure and the result. I don't know where she got her information from.

We're going to fight this one, we're going to appeal.

We're going to fight these charges because I reject every single one of them.

The process has gone smoothly and well from a technical point of view.

From a technical point of view these elections are as sound as they can be under the circumstance.

I think it's the first case of a person in the history of the U.N. who has learned that she has been fired by reading your report in the media.

I think there will be a high rate of participation. Most parties appear to have decided to back the process and fight on the election battlefield,

Overall, if you compare it to January it has been incredibly peaceful.

There are a lot of inconsistencies and ironies in this case, that I hope that the (U.N.) administrative tribunal will appreciate. And I hope they have a sense of humor. Otherwise we will all be crying.

Everything has been going well so far, with very few incidents.

Enormous numbers of voters have gone to the polls peacefully.

This has been a much more solid operation than the one we saw in January, ... It has been a peaceable election. Voters were much better prepared.

The report that we have right now basically is the voting in the south is ... extremely high,

The result is accurate. It has been checked according to the processes that we all follow when we have elections.

asking, begging military commanders precisely not to do that.

Iraqi citizens are faced with a very tough position of basically having to confront their fears, ... decide for themselves whether they consider that this election is important enough ... in order to risk their lives to go and vote.

The important thing now, for the first time in a long time they have turned to the polls and not to the guns.