One month til KRG elections

From Agence France-Presse:

If raw excitement is any indication, big things may be happening in Iraqi Kurdistan. After months of delay, campaign season has finally begun for the autonomous region's July 25 parliamentary elections. Billboards, banners, posters, and fliers are everywhere. Big-name candidates are greeted like rock stars. Patriotic songs blare from cars on the streets. Kurds who were too young to vote in the northern enclave's last election, four years ago, talk eagerly about reform, and their parents and grandparents seem no less enthusiastic. "Everyone feels that this time will be totally different," says Asos Hardi, a veteran journalist and political analyst. "It will be the first time after the invasion that we will have real competition."