{"id":66913,"date":"2022-05-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/?guid=5bf07ed56ca0cc72f49a9e8dbd4b9a2f"},"modified":"2022-05-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T00:00:00","slug":"kuwaitis-head-to-polling-centers-tomorrow-to-vote-in-13th-municipal-council-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/kuwaitis-head-to-polling-centers-tomorrow-to-vote-in-13th-municipal-council-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwaitis head to polling centers tomorrow to vote in 13th Municipal Council elections"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kuwaitis head to the polling stations tomorrow Saturday to elect their candidates in the 13th Municipal Council elections.<\/P>
Two candidates have already been announced winners due to a lack of quorum in the required number of candidates in the seventh and tenth constituencies as per Article 25 of the Electoral Law.<\/P>
Thirty-eight candidates including a woman, running in eight constituencies. The government will then appoint six members in the 16-seat Municipal Council.<\/P>
The elections will be held in 443 committees distributed over 76 schools in eight electoral constituencies.<\/P>
Kuwait Municipality was established in 1930, during which Kuwaiti citizens had a chance to elect their representatives in the Municipal Council, a historic development within Kuwait community.<\/P>
Since its independence on June 19, 1961, the State of Kuwait witnessed 12 Municipal Council elections. <\/P>
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Source: Kuwait News Agency<\/P>
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Kuwaitis head to the polling stations tomorrow Saturday to elect their candidates in the 13th Municipal Council elections.Two candidates have already been announced winners due to a lack of quorum in the required number of candidates in the seventh and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n