Ballot boxes open to voters in electoral centers in the governorates to elect members of the People’s Assembly for the 4th legislative term

Head of the committee, Judge Jihad Murad, said that the electoral centers opened their doors to receive voters at exactly seven o’clock in the morning today and they continue to open until seven o’clock this evening.

He  pointed out that the law in Article 64 allowed the Supreme Judicial Committee for Elections to extend the election period for a maximum of five hours in all or some of the election centers.

Murad pointed out that the number of polling centers is 8,151 and they were determined based on a careful study in which it was taken into account that they should be within large residential and labor gatherings. He added that all members of the polling center committees in the governorates took the legal oath, after they were named by the governors in accordance with the provisions of Article 15 of the General Elections Law.

According to Murad, the number of candidates reached 1,516, 409 in Sector A, and 1,107 in Sector B, competing for 250 seats in the People’s Assembly, noting that citizens began arriving to the electoral centers with the opening of the ballot boxes to cast their votes.

He explained that after the boxes are closed, the vote counting process begins in the electoral center by the election committee in the presence of the candidate or his representative, as well as in the presence of the media officer in the center, and the final results are announced by the Supreme Judicial Committee for Elections immediately after the completion of the vote counting processes.

The Supreme Constitutional Court is responsible for deciding on appeals regarding the validity of the election of members of the People’s Assembly, and the appeal is submitted by the candidate, who did not win, to the court within three days from the date of announcing the election results.

It is noteworthy that voting is a right and a duty for every citizen as long as the conditions stipulated in the General Elections Law No. 5 of 2014 are met, and every citizen who has completed eighteen years of age has the right to vote.