Supervisory Committee to Inspects Municipal Council Elections Balloting Centres

Doha, November 22 (QNA) - Supervisory Committee of the Central Municipal Council elections toured polling centres of 29 election constituencies to consider their appropriateness for the electoral process and their preparation of all necessary fittings. The inspection tour of the election centres comes as part of the Interior Ministry's preparations for the 5th Central Municipal Council's elections of which the first stages will kick off in January 2015 with balloting to be held in May 2015. Brigadier Majid Ibrahim Al khulaifi, Director of Elections Department and Chairman of the Supervising Committee on executive committees of the 5th Central Municipal Council elections said the Committee has finalized the selection of all electoral constituencies' polling centres, adding that some electoral centres of the previous sessions have been changed. He underlined the importance of the selection and preparation of polling centres at all constituencies to remove all obstacles and provide all facilitate all the voters to pave the way for transparent and free elections to enable the voter select his representative at the Central Municipal Council. Brigadier Al-Khulaifi said the electoral law set terms for he eligible voter, namely that his original nationality shall be Qatari or that 15 years have elapsed after naturalization, not under the age of eighteen years, have not been convicted of an offence prejudicial to honour or trust and shall be resident in the electoral constituency area in which he will practice the right of voting.(QNA)