As Iraq prepares to announce the results of long-awaited parliamentary elections in the Kurdish region, anticipation is building among supporters of the two major parties, after unofficial results suggested they were leading in the polls.

Iraqi Kurdish seamstress Sanaa will, like many other voters, boycott an election later this month, a signal of growing disillusionment with the political class that has long dominated the autonomous

Iraqi Kurds began voting on Sunday in a long-overdue parliamentary election for their semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq. The vote, which was delayed multiple times due to political disputes, aims to elect 100 lawmakers who will later select a parliament speaker,