committees called on the NIHR’s team to ensure closing the ballot boxes at the specified time using the lock designated for that purpose. Indicator: Were there any objections to the voting process? Indicator: Were voters allowed to object? Indicator: Was evidence presented to support these objections? 21. During the polling, no objections were submitted by voters, candidates, or others related to the course of the parliamentary or municipal elections, except for the case monitored by the NIHR from a video clip on social media in which one of the candidates questioned the results of sorting and counting. This was followed by a statement issued by the Public Prosecution to the effect that it did monitor a candidate for the parliamentary elections in the Third Northern Constituency, accusing the chairman of the sub-committee supervising the elections of manipulating and falsifying counting and the outcome of the elections in that constituency. Consequently, the complainant was summoned, interrogated, charged with insulting a member of the electoral committee and disseminating false statements about the elections with the intent of influencing its outcome, and referred to criminal trials. 78

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