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Corruption in Iraq’s bloated public sector is on the rise, according to tens of thousands of government workers who responded to a recent survey by the country’s Commission on Integrity.

The country’s worsening corruption scourge is likely been an issue in local council elections on Thursday in the restive Sunni-majority provinces of Nineveh and Anbar, where residents have kept up months of protests against the Shiite-backed government in Baghdad.

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