Ayad Allawi, the leader of Iraq's main Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc and former Prime Minister, center, arrives at a polling station as his identity is checked by one of the voting watchers, for the Iraqi parliamentary election, in Amman, Jordan, Sunday, April 27, 2014. After voting Allawi expressed his views on the election, “really this is a shameful kind of elections, and I can categorize it by an election which is not worthy, not up to the standards of the Iraqi people, but this is the only way for change in Iraq, and I call upon all Iraqis to go to the ballot boxes to cast their votes to change the current situation,”Allawi said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)