The CEC participates in the Arab EMBs meeting on voter registration

The CEC participated in the latest meeting for Arab Electoral Management Bodies held in Amman between 13-14 November 2017 to discuss voter registration.

Mr. Suhail Hammad, Director of IT Department, represented the CEC in the meeting which focused on exploring and presenting various experiences on voter registration in the Arab countries from the legal and technical aspects.

The meeting aimed at implementing the outputs of the regional workshop on voter registration in the Arab countries, held by Arab EMBs in 2015, which included share of expertise and software programs used in the registration of voters in member states as well as capacity building for election staff with regional and international experience.

In addition to Palestine, the meeting was attended by a number of Arab countries such as Sudan, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Somalia and Jordan in order to prepare an electoral map on the reality of registration in the world.

It should be noted that the Arab EMBs is an independent, non-political Arab organization that aims to consolidate regional cooperation among Arab electoral administrations and in which Palestine is a founding member.