 During a press conference held on Tuesday in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the United Nations Iraq envoy Jehani Harris Plashad discussed Iraq's early parliamentary elections. It's to be held on October 10. Also discussed was the U.S. electoral support mission in Iraq. The world is watching closely, like the Iraqi people, nobody wishes to see a repetition of the events in 2018, said Harris Plashad, who serves both as the special representative of the United Nations Secretary General in Iraq and the head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq. An election law passed by parliament at the end of 2019 allows voters to elect individual lawmakers instead of choosing from party lists. The world is watching closely. Like the Iraqi people, nobody wishes to see a repetition of the events in 2018. In other words, the importance of credible Iraqi elections is widely recognized. What we do know is that in 2018, political parties did interfere and did distort, force or shape the election results. What we're doing now is to design processes, I mean in support of IAC, and again we are just supporting and advising, is to organize the processes and systems in such a way that this is no longer possible. A new electoral system has been put in place. Voters will now vote for individuals, not just for political parties.