Parliament approved legislation Monday restoring guaranteed seats on provincial councils to Christians and other small religious communities, the last legal hurdle to holding provincial elections next year.
But the version that won approval granted only one seat to Christians on the councils of the provinces of Baghdad, Ninevah and Basra. Other seats went to small religious groups _ Yazidis, Shabaks and Sabeans.
Two other versions, one of them put forward by the U.N., would have allocated more seats to Christians in Baghdad and Ninevah provinces.
"The result indicates that there is a religious and nationalist fanaticism," said Christian …
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