clough. our team the new. the room the head wrapped up this week's parliamentary election with initial results showed no puppies to cute and made but didn't cause peace to libby's hundred and fifty people would kill with extremist groups carried a series of nationwide bombings. to cap it off next to whether this poll anyway could in any way it handled a peaceful new chapter for iraq the election best described by the numbers. more than nine thousand candidates are vying for three hundred seats in parliament. it overlaps the next president and prime minister. some twenty one million iraqis register to vote in the first national election since the looks on the u s troops three years ago. there are other features to consider the growing number of iraqis killed in a sweeping violence has displaced and more. no single political bloc is likely to win a majority of the prime minister nuri al maliki speed of long lines is expected to be it. she's seeking a third term but it's hard to label the past few years back mali