AMMAN — Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Local
Administration
Tawfiq Krishan said on Tuesday that voter turnout was higher in
rural areas than in the capital as voters cast ballots to choose governorate
and municipal councils across the Kingdom and members the
Greater Amman Municipality Council, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
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Ballot boxes
opened at 7am for voters to elect heads and members of 100 municipal councils,
12 governorate councils and two-thirds of the Greater Amman Municipality
Council’s 28 members.
“We congratulate
the nation on election day, which coincides with the start of the second
centennial of the Jordanian state,” Krishan told a press conference held
jointly with Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the
Independent Election Commission Khaled Kalaldeh.
He said that
voters in the governorates were motivated, but voting was at a low point in
Amman, adding that voters were urged to choose candidates with experience and
who have the competency to manage development files in governorate and
municipal councils.
Krishan said the
local administration law aims to boost decentralization and separate its many
tasks from those of municipal councils, noting that 40 percent of the
governorate councils’ allocations are geared toward development, in partnership
with the private sector.
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