corporations, and general organizations, and two members, one of them will be the secretary general of the committee. The Minister of Justice, Islamic Affairs, and Endowments shall issue a decision appointing the chairs and members of the committees, as well as their headquarters. The decision shall also specify the eligible person acting in lieu of the chair in his/her absence or inability to carry out the job. The Executive Director of the elections shall appoint a number of employees to help such committees in carrying out its duties according to the needs of each committee ....” 10. Article (18) of the same Law mentioned above, stipulates that, “The Minister of Justice, Islamic Affairs, and Endowments shall preside over a supreme committee to supervise the validity of the referendum and the election of the members of the House of Representatives throughout the Kingdom, and to decide on all matters presented to it by the committees mentioned in Article (7) of this Law. The Supreme Committee shall comprise a sufficient number of judges and legal advisers appointed by the Minister of Justice, Islamic Affairs, and Endowments. The Central Statistics Organization shall assist the Supreme Committee in carrying out the preparations for the referendum, election, and nomination, and the supervision of all necessary technical works.” 11. Hence, Decree No. (71) of 2014 on the identification of electoral districts, constituencies, boundaries, and sub-committees for the election of the House of Representatives, whereby the Kingdom of Bahrain is divided into a number of electoral districts, namely, the Capital district, which is divided into ten (10) electoral constituencies; Muharraq district, which is divided into eight (8) electoral constituencies; the Northern district, which is divided into twelve (12) electoral constituencies; and the Southern district, which is divided into ten (10) electoral constituencies. The delimitation of each electoral district is the boundaries of the governorate in which it is located, with a total of forty (40) provincial electoral constituencies. 12. Under the provisions of Decree No. (71) of 2014 on the identification of electoral districts, constituencies, boundaries, and sub-committees for the election of the House of Representatives, and Decree No. (80) of 2014 and Decree No. (44) of 2018, there are (14) public voting and counting centers distributed among the various governorates of the Kingdom. These centers are for the voters who are registered in one of the electoral lists in the Kingdom and wish to cast their votes before such centers, to elect one of the candidates registered in their constituencies, provided that the Minister of Justice, Islamic Affairs, and Endowments issues a decision forming the committees and determining their headquarters. 23

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