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Poles in Iraq

(B2) Several hundred Polish soldiers came to vote at an improvised polling station at Polish headquarters, in the officers' mess. Next to the pool tables and reading room, under the red and white Polish flag, a few voting booths and a ballot box surrounded by the European flag had been installed. One by one, the soldiers of the multinational division parade to vote, under the gaze of their officers, assessors in uniform. A tradition in the Polish army. Already in the Soviet era, soldiers voted in their barracks. The government was thus assured of a faithful vote

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Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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