observed in standing for election to membership of the Council of Representatives, the relevant provisions of the electoral propaganda, and defined conditions of the end of membership through removal or a member's resignation, in addition to the penalties imposed for violation of its provisions.  With regard to the right to participate in public affairs, the provisions of the Municipal Law issued by Legislative Decree No. (35) of 2010, as amended to divide the Kingdom of Bahrain into a number of municipalities and the Capital Secretariat, stipulating the composition mechanism of the membership of municipal councils and the Capital Secretariat, the conditions to be fulfilled by those who are members thereof, specifying terms of reference assigned to municipal councils, the system of work, provisions relevant to executive authority and its financial resources, as the Legislative Decree No. (3) for the year 2002 countrys on the election of members of municipal councils, as amended, indicating the terms of electing members of municipal councils, the conditions of depriving of such right, provisions relevant to the schedules of voters and electoral domicile, and other provisions relevant to the mechanism of the election, as the Legislative Decree also determines penalties for violation of its provisions, as well as the identification the voting age, which is twenty years, by law.  To complement such legislative system to exercise the right to vote and the right to contest for elections, supplementary legislations to regulate the exercise of this right have been issued, for instance Legislative Decree No. (14) for the year 1973, on the arrangement of propaganda, and Resolution No. (77) for the year 2006, on the arrangement of the election campaign for elections of the House of Representatives and municipal councils, to address the issues and procedures relevant to electoral propaganda and penalties for violating it. International legal protection of the right to vote and the right to contest for elections  The right to vote and the right to contest for elections is established in international human rights instruments, specifically the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which acceded by the Kingdom of Bahrain under Law No. (65) 3