DOHA: Polling centres for the 29 constituencies of the Central Municipal Council (CMC) have been decided more than five months ahead of the Council’s next election which is due in May 2015.
After the re-demarcation of the constituencies, polling stations in some of them (constituencies) have been changed.
The 29-member CMC has a four-year term and it goes to the polls every four years. The first CMC election was held in early 1999.
The next election will be the fifth for the CMC and will be held in May 2015.
A committee set up at the Ministry of Interior to supervise the next CMC poll said it has decided all the polling stations and inspected them.
Brigadier Majid Ibrahim Al Khulaifi (pictured), director of elections department and chairman of the poll supervisory committee, said the polling centres for all the 29 CMC wards had been finalised and some had been changed.
Al Khulaifi told QNA yesterday that he urges eligible voters to register their names in the voter list which is being prepared afresh after the re-demarcation of the constituencies.
“All eligible voters must register afresh using the Ministry of Interior website,” he said.
About eligibility to vote, he said the person must be originally a Qatari national or must be a naturalised Qatari for 15 years.
The voter must be 18 years of age and must not have been convicted of an offense prejudicial to honor or trust, and he or she must be a resident of the constituency where he or she would cast their vote.
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