Modern Day Iraq

The current president of Iraq, Jalal Talabani. 

Iraq is in the news currently because it has recently changed its government from a republic to a democracy. Because of this dramatic change, people don’t think that it can be done and are making a big deal about it. Another more current reason is that they are beginning to actually start off this new government. They are starting to vote on things and talk more democratic and allow the people to have a say in what the government does. Although now that the second year of votes are in, the people around the world are questioning even more if it can be done. After comparing the results of the votes, the first vote in the democratic government had much bigger attendance than that of the second. This made the news because people now were beginning to criticize that they are failing because of the drop in attendance. However, it this true or not? People can assume whatever, but if we were to compare the number of attendance to our votes in America, the Iraqi votes were significantly larger than ours. This might show that they are succeeding, but it still makes headlines because the question is in the air.