Damascus-SANA
Tomorrow, the elections for local administration councils in all Syrian governorates will start at 7:00 am through 7,348 polling stations, with an increase of 1,200 polling centers over the 2018 elections, with the aim of ensuring that the voter reaches the polling center easily.
The number of candidates for administrative units "provincial councils, cities, towns and municipalities" reached 59,498 candidates who will compete for 19,086 seats.
Judge Counselor Jihad Murad, head of the Supreme Judicial Committee, announced yesterday that Saturday is the day of electoral silence for the elections of local administration councils, indicating that on this day public meetings, the distribution of leaflets and propaganda for candidates are prohibited in accordance with Article 58 of the General Elections Law, which stipulates that electoral campaigning should be stopped before 24 hour from the date set for the election.
In accordance with Article 15 of the General Elections Law, members of the local administration council election center committees took the legal oath before the judicial sub-committees in all governorates before they began their work on election day.
The elections begin at 7 in the morning and end at 7 in the evening, and the Supreme Judicial Committee may extend the election period for a period of five hours at most, and this depends on the participation of voters. To extend the election period as it deems appropriate.
It is noteworthy that in Syria there are 1,470 administrative units distributed over 14 governorates, 158 cities, 572 towns and 726 municipalities.