It appears that the new constitution has been ratified by the Iraqi people. See Fox.
From the Washington Post, this by Ellen Knickmeyer and Omar Fekeiki:
BAGHDAD, Oct. 15 -- Sunni Arab voters turned out in force for Iraq's constitutional referendum Saturday as insurgents largely suspended attacks, granting Sunnis a chance to try to defeat the U.S.-backed charter and giving much of the country a rare day of peace that belied the deep fractures exposed by the vote. Voting en masse for the first time since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, Sunni Arabs cast ballots in large numbers, according to electoral officials and witnesses. Turnout in areas populated by the country's Shiite majority and ethnic Kurds, whose political leaders drafted the proposed constitution, was described by officials as low.
Turnout in Kurdish and Shiite areas was low, presumably, because the constitution looked like a sure bet in those areas.
Turnout reached 93 percent in the heavily Sunni western city of Fallujah after clerics and others went door-to-door telling residents it was safe to venture out of their homes, election officials said.
But in some other western cities, fear crushed the potential that had been suggested by heavy Sunni voter registration. In Ramadi, election day opened with automatic-weapons fire around at least one polling site. There were sporadic explosions as U.S. Marines patrolled the streets. Turnout there was 10 percent. "People are terrified and don't want to risk their lives," said an electoral official, Nadhum Ali.
Fallujah, of course, was the site of a small war within a war between American troops and insurgents. Fallujah has now joined the political process. One thing that this indicates is that the insurgency might collapse altogether the moment the Sunni clerics turn against it. The task now for the founding fathers and mothers of a democratic Iraq is to convince them that their interests are better pursued by the ballot than the car bomb.
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