Noticias

ABU DHABI // Candidates for the Federal National Council will undergo a three-day workshop to prepare them for their upcoming election campaigns.

The workshops, run by the General Secretariat of the FNC, will include sessions on parliamentary knowledge and advice on how to organise their campaigns.

This includes: how to create a campaign team, how to communicate with the voters, how to set up the campaign budget and how to use social media, said Dr Mohammed Al Mazrouei, the secretary general of the council.

Abu Dhabi: As a part of the preparations by the National Election Committee (NEC) for the Federal National Council elections, the UAE Embassies and diplomatic missions abroad have commenced work to conduct the voting process.

In line with the framework of coordination between NEC and the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the procedures guide and ballot boxes for the elections have been dispatched to UAE diplomatic missions abroad.

A minister on Sunday urged UAE citizens to check their names in the electoral college list and participate actively in the October 3 Federal National Council (FNC) elections for a transparent electoral process.

JEDDAH: Tribal politics has once again come into play in Hafr Al-Baten in the Eastern Province, with the city witnessing “primaries” to choose a common candidate, local media reported Sunday.
Lobbying for common candidates reportedly started in the month of Ramadan, although such practice is banned by the Interior Ministry.
Social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp raged with campaigns to form tribal blocs to choose potential candidates for the Dec. 12 municipal elections.

RIYADH — Citizens all over the Kingdom except the two holy cities of Makkah and Madinah on Saturday started registering to vote in the nationwide municipal council elections in December.

A source from the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs said the registration process would continue for 21 days. Candidate registration will start on Aug. 30 in all regions except in Makkah and Madinah, where the process will begin on Sunday.

Women are registering to vote in the elections for the first time in the history of Saudi Arabia.

Afghanistan continues to see delays in launching electronic identification cards that was planned some five years ago. 

19 August was set by the ministerial council for the issuance of the cards to begin; however, President Ashraf Ghani ruled it out for some other day.

However, unlike expectations, the president failed to set to a particular even as he chaired regular cabinet meeting last Thursday.

As many as 90 nominations, including 26 from women, were received by the National Election Committee on Thursday, the fifth and last day of the candidate registration process for the Federal National Council Elections 2015, taking the total number of registered candidates to 349.

The NEC will declare the preliminary list on August 23, and the final list on August 31. Candidates can request withdrawal not later than September 14.

Abu Dhabi: With many former Federal National Council (FNC) members who won seats in the 2006 and 2011 elections contesting again, officials expect the FNC elections set for October 3 to be a very tight race.

“As the UAE confidently advances towards creating a more mature and securely institutionalised democracy, the Federal National Council elections 2015 will be a very tight race,” said Ahmad Bin Shabib Al Daheri, former deputy speaker of the FNC and member of the National Election Committee.