National team involved in the supervision and monitoring of the electoral process:
o The national team shall be formed at the invitation of the National Institution for
Human Rights to all civil society organizations to participate in setting up the
national team for the supervision and monitoring of the electoral process,
according to which those organizations nominate no more than 3 persons,
provided that they meet the following conditions:
1- The nominee shall be a Bahraini national.
2- The nominee shall be twenty-five full calendar years old at least.
3- The nominee shall be have interest and knowledge of matters related to
the electoral process.
4- The nominee shall have no political affiliations that may affect the
integrity of his monitoring and supervisory role.
o The National Institution shall have the right following the mechanism it deems
appropriate to choose from the nominees the appropriate persons from its point
of view to be a member of the national team tasked with supervising and
monitoring the electoral process, in coordination with the High Election and
Referendum Commission.
o Members of national team shall be assigned to the five governorates of the
Kingdom, which consist of 40 local polling stations and 10 general polling
stations, so that each local or general polling station shall have no less than (3)
observers, i.e. a total of a minimum number of (150) observers. The national
team members shall serve in their personal capacity.
Training of national team members involved in the supervision and monitoring of
the electoral process:
The existence of a national working team in the field of supervision and
monitoring of the electoral process means that they should be offered an intensive
training program, whether by the NIHR or by the assistance of specialist local and
foreign cadres in this regard. Therefore, it is necessary that the training program
for the team commence before a reasonable period of time prior to election time.
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