The High National Elections Commission (HNEC) announced the date of the municipal council elections (group one) for 2024 on Saturday, November 16. This announcement came in an official statement, which also confirmed that the electoral campaigns for the candidates will start with the date of issuance of the decision to approve the final list of candidates and up until Friday, November 15, 2024, which is the day of “electoral silence”.
The statement indicated that the HNEC will issue a decision regarding the approval of the final list of candidates and determine the voting day for the municipal council elections. It stressed the need to adhere to the executive regulations attached to Resolution No. (43) of 2023 for the municipal council elections regarding the presentation of their electoral programs, announcing them and advertising them, and stopping all activities classified as electoral propaganda 24 hours before the voting day.
HNEC also called on the organizations that had been approved to monitor the elections to prepare to follow up and monitor the voting process on the specified date, and to adhere to the monitoring methodology based on neutrality and integrity. It stressed the need to make this process a success through cooperation between all state agencies.
It also indicated that this is its first experience in implementing elections at this level, stressing its determination to move forward with holding municipal council elections (group two) at the beginning of 2025.
“Group one” includes 58 municipal councils distributed across various regions of the country (17 municipalities in the southern region, 29 in the western region, and 12 municipalities in the eastern region).
