AMMAN —
Jordanians on Tuesday cast their votes to elect their representatives in
municipal and governorate councils in the second election Jordan held during
the
COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
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Polling stations
opened at 7am local time for the election of heads and members of 100 municipal
councils, members of 12 governorate councils, and two-thirds of the
Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) Council 28
members.
According to the
Independent Election Commission (IEC), the number of eligible voters stood at
about 4.599 million, of which 2.163 million were men and 2.436 million were
women.
A total of 4,646
male and female candidates were competing for mayoralty in 100 municipalities,
for 918 seats in municipal councils, 200 of which were reserved for women, for
289 seats in governorate councils, 59 of which were reserved for women, and for 28 seats in the
Greater Amman Municipality Council, six of which are for women. Fourteen
members of the (GAM) Council are appointed by the Cabinet; they represent
government departments, chambers of industry and commerce, and experts.
Voters cast their
ballot in 6,937 boxes — 3,345 for men and 3,592 for women — at 1,850 polling
stations; of these, 770 were exclusively for men, 806 for women, and 274 mixed.
The Election Law
specifies that there must be 409 electoral districts for municipal councils,
158 districts for governorate councils, and 22 districts in the GAM.
This is the second
election that the IEC has held under the
Defense Law that was issued in 2020 as
a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The elections were monitored
by 5,048 observers representing 18 local and 10 foreign parties. To ensure a
smooth voting process, 55,000 security officers were deployed.
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