The Central Elections Commission (CEC) has concluded all preparations for the registration and nominations of electoral lists for the 2010 local elections. Mainly, the CEC has trained nomination staff in all West Bank districts, conducted a number of training workshops to representatives of political parties to explain nomination procedures, published the final voter registry and provided copies of it to accredited political parties.
The CEC will start receiving nomination applications as of Tuesday, 1st of June until Thursday 10th of June in all district offices. According to CEC regulations, all political parties, coalitions or groups are entitled to form electoral lists for purpose of nomination for the membership in local councils. A list that wishes to be registered and eligible for nomination, has to submit to the CEC a nomination application form which may be obtained from the Central Elections Office in Ramallah, CEC district offices or online through the Commission’s webpage www.elections.ps. The complete nomination form should be submitted by the list of representative to the district office of the locality to which the list wishes to be nominated for council membership.
As soon as the Commission processes nomination applications, it will publish the preliminary list of candidates on 12th of June for three days at the district offices and local councils in each district so as to enable lists to verify their information and voters to object to the nomination of any list or candidate.
On this occasion, the CEC calls on all citizens, political parties and civil society organizations to cooperate with its staff to ensure a free and fair elections.