Nine hundred provincial council candidates submitted incomplete educational documents to election officials and 400 do have credentials whatsoever, the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) said Wednesday.
ECC officials reported the figures midway through the public documentation review they began this week to verify provincial council candidates were eligible for the elections.
"This list states that academic records for some of the candidates were not found due to mistakes in names and the father's names of candidates," ECC head Nader Mohseni said. "This list clearly indicates that close to 400 individuals were not listed as graduates with the Ministry of Education."
The Ministry of Education (MoE) is cooperating with the ECC to further investigate the education credentials of the 400 candidates in question, who have not yet been eliminated from the race.
"If these candidates can defend their education documents, they will not be eliminated," Mohseni said.
The ECC added that provincial council candidates who are found to have education documents but cannot read or write will be disqualified from the elections.
A number of candidates who have been forced to take time out of their campaigning to sort out documentation issues with the ECC have complained that the review is being held too late in the election process.
The ECC has claimed the reason for the review's delay was that education records were received late from the Ministry of Education.
Source/Fuente: http://www.tolonews.com/elections2014/ecc-reviews-provincial-council-can...
