Iraq election to the test

The Iraqi elections are taking place in an atmosphere of great tension ; this is the first election without the presence of U.S. troops . The themes of the campaign focused around the major problems facing the country : poverty , unemployment , corruption and lack of public services; but in addition to these emergencies , there is also the lack of redistribution of wealth from the increase in crude oil production , which rose to about 3.5 million barrels per day. These arguments , however, all well connected , which will require a considerable effort to the government that emerges from the polls . The social structure of the country is divided into three major groups ; Shiites , Sunnis and Kurds, does not facilitate a real unity of the nation, which is divided and therefore weak in the face of internal challenges to raise the level of overall quality of life of the Iraqi people as a whole. In particular, the phenomenon of corruption affects all aspects of social and political life of the country , representing an almost insurmountable obstacle for the implementation of the spread of the income needed to resolve conflict . It must be remembered that the whole thing takes place in a country battered by terrorism, which kills an average of twenty-five victims a day and where some areas are beyond the authority of the central power. The advanced , coinciding with the successes achieved in the civil war in Syria , the movement of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant , a group linked to Al Qaeda , he posed the problem of Islamic fundamentalism in the foreground between the events of the country. Favored by the support of Iran, which seeks to form a growth area for the exercise of his influence, this Islamic fundamentalist movement tries to sneak into the territories of the country on the border with Syria , to try to form a separate entity . To pursue this goal are being implemented terrorist attacks directed against the capital and major cities , often against the institutions and groups of Sunni origin , giving rise to reactions often of the same type . Outgoing Prime Minister Maliki , Scythian , pointing to the re-election for a third term , is accused by the opposition, is that the Sunni growth , not to have sufficiently protected the territorial integrity of the country, for not having taken sufficient measures against the break-up initiated by fundamentalists. However, the disaffection in public life in which the country has fallen should be one of the elements that could ensure victory Maliki , rather than the results obtained or that of its election programs . This is especially true in the field Sunni who arrived in the elections divided and without finding the common ground necessary to develop alternative strategies successful. Iraq who stands for election is a country with independence and an incomplete democracy , a tangible sign of American failure , due to an action that has not been able to go beyond the activities of war, without providing a complete help in building democratic institutions. The nation of Iraq , it is left to itself and so crushed by the religious and political struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia , who are fighting to be able to exert its influence over it . We are almost in the presence of the repetition of the post-colonial history , which has done so much damage in Africa and Asia, where the abandonment of the European powers was left a situation of total uncertainty, were often artificial , where they were to be reconciled , often without success , the needs and uses of ethnic or religious groups often adverse . Iraq today is in similar conditions, riven by economic problems and the forced cohabitation of religious and ethnic groups antagonists , where the necessary process of democratic maturity , following a dictatorship is far from done and indeed has exacerbated the deep differences and contrasts. The winners of the 328 seats up for grabs ahead of the elections have a lot of work to develop the right chemistry of government, an executive who will support major battles and that will have to convince the world's major powers to support him and help him.