Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Committee for Elections: big number of people participate in the People’s Assembly elections

 Head of the Supreme Judicial Committee for Elections, Judge Samer Zamreeq, affirmed that the wide participation in the elections of the People’s Assembly in its third legislative term is good, indicating that the participation rate does not appear until the end of the poll.

In a statement to reporters today at the media center in the Ministry of Information, Zamreeq said that the election process is good and if a number of citizens are not able to vote until seven o’clock due to the measures taken to tackle the Corona epidemic, then the voting period can be extended by a maximum of five hours. So the necessity is what determines if there is need for an extension or not.

Zamreeq pointed out that the task of the Supreme Judicial Committee is to run the electoral process and ensure integrity and transparency in it. When the electoral process is over, the boxes are closed by the head of the Election Center in the presence of the candidates or their agents and the media outlets. Next day, the votes will be counted and then sent to the Judicial Subcommittee which counts the results in all governorate centers and sends them to the Supreme Judicial Committee for Elections.

Zamreeq pointed out that the candidate who does  not win the elections has the right to appeal to the Supreme Constitutional Court within three days of the announcement of the election results, and the court will decide the applications within seven days.

Inas Abdulkareem