An Iraqi man signs with an ink fingerprint as he votes in the first provincial council elections in a decade, at a polling station in the central city of Najaf. The vote comes at a time of widespread disillusionment among the country's 43 million inhabitants, with endemic corruption eating away at the oil-rich nation.
Pro-Iran Shi'ite parties won the majority of council seats in most of Iraq's provinces, the final results from 18 December elections released by the electoral commission showed on Thursday.
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