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Voter guide

Voter guide

The voter

Every Qatari who fulfills the conditions required for the election of members of the Central Municipal Council by Article (1) of the first chapter of the prince Decree No. 17 of 1998 regarding the election of members of the Central Municipal Council. Every voter must exercise his or her right to vote in the electoral district.

Constituencies

The number of electoral districts in the country (29) constituency, indicating its borders and regions, each of which is the decision of the Minister of Interior No. (51) for the year 2014. Each electoral constituency has a seat designated to implement the various procedures of the electoral process, from registering voters and candidates, adjudicating appeals, conducting the election, and announcing the results.

Conditions that must be in the voter:
  1. His/her original nationality is Qatari or has passed since his/her nationality Qatar is at least fifteen years old.

  2. Must be over Eighteen years old AD.

  3. That he was not previously convicted of a crime involving dishonor or dishonesty unless he has been rehabilitated.

  4. Be a resident actual stay in the constituency election.

  5. Not to be a person working in the armed forces or the police.

Actions:
My brother's citizen, my sister's citizen:

If you meet the required requirements, exercise your right to register your name in the voters' tables as follows:

Registration is done according to the following steps:
  1. Know about the electoral district that you follow by virtue of the actual residence.
  2. Head to the constituency to register your name.
  3. Fill out the form for the voter registration application and make sure the data contained in it is correct.
  4. Apply to the committee of the leaders of the voters with your personal ID Or use your right to entries via the app "Matarash 2".

After verifying the data and providing the required conditions, the committee registers the name of the voter in the voters slate and published at the relevant electoral district as soon as the necessary procedures are completed in such a way that citizens can see it. Voters who are not on the voters' list are entitled within a week to apply to the Voter Registration Commission to add their name to the list and may apply similarly to remove their name from the voter slate in the voters' lists without right

Appeals or grievances

In each constituency, there is a committee called the Committee for the Examination of Appeals and Grievances. This is to adjudicate appeals and grievances

A- Complaints and appeals against voter registration
Conditions :

The applicant must be restricted to the constituency to which the contested voter belongs.

Date:

Within seven days of the date of the announcement of the voter schedules

Reasons:
  1. If his request is rejected by the Voter Registration Commission to register his name in the schedule without a right.
  2. If the name of anyone is registered and this name doesn't meet the conditions to be met in the voter.
Actions:
  1. Fill out the form for an appeal or grievance indicating the reasons for the appeal or grievance.
  2. Submit the appeal or grievance to the head of the voter registration committee in the district It has during the specified legal period.

- Appeal or grievance shall be submitted to the committee for the examination of appeals and grievances on the day following its submission, the committee will decide on it within seven days of its submission.

- The date of the election of the members of the Central Municipal Council shall be announced at the headquarters of the districts electoral at least twenty-one days before the election, as
The names of the candidates are displayed at the headquarters of each electoral district.

B- An appeal against a candidate:

Conditions: The applicant must be restricted to the constituency to which the candidate belongs contested against.

Date: Within seven days of the date of the special disclosure with the candidates.

Reasons: The required membership requirements for the candidate are not available.

Actions:
  1. Filling out the form of the appeal, including the reason for the objection.
  2. Submit the appeal to the chairman of the committee to examine appeals and grievances.
  3. Receiving a stamped copy of the appeal from the committee.

- The objection will be decided within seven days of submission.

How do you exercise your electoral right?

On the day of the election, you must follow the following steps:

  1. Come by yourself to your constituency and head to the election hall.
  2. Go to the Election Commission and show your ID card.
  3. Receive the election card and go to the place of voting.
  4. Mark the ballot by marking (√) in front of the name of the candidate you choose.
  5. Bend the ballot, go to the ballot box and drop the card in it.

- The election process will run from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m then the committees start counting the vote.

-The names of those elected at the constituency headquarters are announced following the emergence of a result elections directly.

Appeal against the elected member

Who has the right to appeal: Every voter or candidate has the right to apply for annulment election of any member elected in his constituency within 15 days of the announcement of results for the following reasons:

  1. The elected member has lost any of the required conditions.
  2. Any breach of the procedures provided for by law regarding the regulation of the election process.
Appeal proceedings:
  1. Filling out the appeal form in the front of the chairman of the appeals examination committee and grievances.
  2. The appeal is submitted to the Chairman of the Appeals and Appeals Examination Committee.
  3. Receipt of a stamped copy of the appeal from the Committee.

-The Committee investigates the appeal and submits its report to the Municipal Council accompanied by its recommendations, the decision of the Central Municipal Council shall be final and published In the official newspaper.

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