AMMAN — The
Public Security Directorate (PSD) Tuesday dismissed rumors about riots and
brawls or suspension of voting in some regions during local elections across
the Kingdom, and said that voting day was trouble-free, the Jordan News Agency,
Petra, reported.
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The PSD media spokesman said the
directorate had monitored “misleading and untrue” information that some people
tried to disseminate with the aim of “stirring public opinion.”
Cases of violence recorded in Jerash, Fuheis and Mafraq
— Rased
The
Rased Monitoring Coalition for the 2022 local elections announced Tuesday that
it had 223 electoral observations, including serious violations in addition to
moderate and minor violations that were recorded by 2pm on Tuesday, according
to Jo24.
The coalition announced that “cases of
violence were recorded in Jerash, Fuheis and Mafraq,” in addition to “violation
of the vote secrecy and a case of public voting in a number of polling
stations.”
The coalition pointed out that “14
percent of the observations were related to photographing ballot papers in
Jerash and Maan”.
The coalition added that 65 observations
were recorded in Jerash and more than 30 in Maan.
Voting for Putin!
Circulating
on social media were ballot papers with the name of Russian President Vladimir
Putin written, instead of the name of a candidate for municipal and provincial
councils, according to Khaberni.
The Kingdom
is divided into 158 electoral districts for provincial councils, 100
municipalities, 409 electoral districts, while the Amman Municipality includes
22 electoral districts.
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