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.
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