5. Article (29) of the above Law stipulates that, “The Chairman of the Supreme Committee provided for in Article (18) of this Law shall announce the results of the referendum after receiving all the minutes of the subcommittees.” 6. Article (19) of Decree-Law No. (15) of 2002 on the Shura Council and the House of Representatives and its amendments stipulates that, “If the number of candidates applying for membership in the House of Representatives in an electoral district is the same as the number of members specified for such district, or if only this number of candidates remains for any reason whatsoever, the Minister of Justice, Islamic Affairs, and Endowments shall announce those candidates as winning members without the need to conduct election in the district.” 7. Article (20) of the same Law followed, stipulating that, “The member of the House of Representatives shall be elected by an absolute majority of the number of valid votes cast in the election. If this majority is not achieved by one of the candidates in the electoral constituency, there shall be a re-election (re-run) between the two candidates who have obtained the largest number of votes. If another candidate had equal votes to the second runner up, such candidate shall participate in a second election re-run, in which case the candidate with the highest number of votes shall be considered the winner. If more than one candidate received equal votes, lots shall be drawn among them with the knowledge of the chairman of the sub-committee. In all cases, the chairman of the sub-committee shall establish in the minutes of counting the number of votes received by each candidate in his/her constituency. The chairman of the committee and the secretary shall sign this minutes and the ballot boxes shall be closed. The minutes and ballot papers shall be sent to the Chairman of the Supervisory Committee for the Soundness of Elections, who shall announce the name of the winning candidate.” 8. Regarding the municipal affairs, the provisions of Articles (23), (24), (25), (26), (27), and (28) of Decree-Law No. (3) of 2002 on the system for the election of members of municipal councils, as amended, bear, in substance, the same provisions governing the electoral process of the members of the House of Representatives. 9. Through the field observation of the NIHR’s team of the polling and counting centers, which were visited during the first round and the run-off of the elections of the members of the House of Representatives and municipal councils, in which they were present in the polling and counting centers during the stage of closing the ballot boxes, commencing the sorting and counting of ballots, 66