In light of the above, the National Institution for Human Rights recommends the following: 1. Classify the referendum and elections crimes mentioned in Article (30) of Decree-Law No. (14) of 2002 on the Exercise of Political Rights, as amended, as urgent; and establish a competent and temporary court to consider and adjudicate these crimes. 2. Issue a new law on organizing media and electoral propaganda for the elections of the members of the House of Representatives and the municipal councils, to include all the issues related to the organization of such propaganda, allocated funds, means of exercising it, and the related prohibitions. In addition, the new law must include deterrent penalties that prevent the violation of its provisions. The said law must also provide for provisions that regulate the issue of funds and campaign spending, in particular, provisions setting maximum limits to spending and financial expenditures on electoral campaigns. 3. Make available ballot papers in Braille for the blind to enable them to participate actively in the electoral process. 4. Amend the provisions of Articles (60) and (69) of Law No. (37) of 2012 on the Child Law, to the criminalize the use of children in the elections, and to propose appropriate and deterrent penalties for such dangerous criminal acts, focusing on the best interest of the child. 5. Amend the provisions of Decree-Law No. (14) of 2002 on the Exercise of Political Rights and its amendments, so as to allow the candidate to choose more than one agent to follow up on the electoral process, provided the number of agents does not exceed the maximum number of the public electoral centers. 6. Pay more attention to increase the awareness of voters on the need to ensure that their names are on the voters’ lists during the period prescribed by the law, thus avoiding being prevented from casting their votes on polling day, through all forms of media and social media, well before the due date set by the law. 7. Pay more attention to increasing the awareness of the individuals, whose names are not registered on the voters’ lists, on the need to head to the supervisory centers of their governorate on polling day, using all the forms of media and social media. Such individuals were not aware of this procedure 81

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