14,000 Candidates Runnings For Office In Iraq
Thursday, three Sunni Muslim candidates were assassinated right before the country's provincial elections. More than 14,000 candidates are running for office, which some say is a good sign — and others describe as simply confusing. We explore why the country is expecting a lower voter turnout than in the past election and why in cosmopolitan Baghdad, analysts say secularists are likely to repudiate religious parties