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BAGHDAD / ISTANBUL Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s coalition has emerged as a winner in Iraq’s parliamentary elections, placing him in a position to start negotiations to form a new government. Preliminary results showed that Sudani’s Reconstruction and Development Coalition won 1,317 million votes in the Nov. 11 polls, followed by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), led by Masoud Barzani, with around 1.099 million. The Sunni Progress Party, headed by former Parliament Speaker