Protests against the results of Iraq's recent parliamentary election have turned violent in Baghdad, with demonstrators denouncing "fraud" clashing with security forces outside the capital's high-security Green Zone.
"So many people in the streets say that they do not believe in this electoral process, because it's only reproducing the same old parties," Aljazeera's Mahmoud Abdelwahed said.
The results of the vote showed that a bloc led by influential Muslim Shia leader Moqtada al-Sadr won 73 seats, maintaining its position as the largest group in Iraq's 329-strong parliament.
Iraq's independent election commission received more than 1,300 appeals following the elections but after an initial assessment, the commission threw out the majority of the complaints, citing a "lack of evidence."
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