IEC Launches Awareness Courses Program Specialized in Election Petitions

Publication date: April 10th, 2019

IEC held a consultative meeting with a number of judges through a series of meetings held by the Commission with the electoral process partners, in partnership and cooperation with law supremacy program.

The meeting was placed within the Commission’s preparation framework for the upcoming parliamentary elections, expected to be held in 2020, as a constitutional benefit to promote the participatory principle with judiciary and believing in it as a central partner in ensuring the integrity and impartiality of the electoral process.

The Commission is in the process of launching a specialized awareness sessions’ program for all judges of the magistrate court, court of first instance and the court of appeal, with the aim of holding specialized sessions on electoral petitions, and benefit from the experiences of previous elections in the field of adjudication in judicial appeals.

The program is expected to cover nearly one thousand judges from all the Kingdom’s courts and will last for about a year.