Maaita: We will work together to continue the achievement in the Independent Electoral Commission  

April 10, 2022  The Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Independent Electoral Commission, Engineer Musa Al-Maaita, expressed the Council's pride in the high royal trust during the first meeting of the Council in the presence of the Secretary General of the Commission and its directors after taking the oath of office before His Majesty the King' Deputy. Al-Maaita praised the efforts of the former Council headed by Dr. Khalid Al-Kalda, stressing that the new council will work with the administrative staff to continue the achievement achieved by the Independent Electoral Commission in its 10 years, which has seen progress in strengthening voter confidence in the electoral process and overcoming the challenges that accompany the elections in all its forms. He expressed his pride in the experiences accumulated by the staff of the Authority in various aspects related to its work, and the positive reputation it has reached at the regional and global level, especially with the establishment of the Electoral Institute and obtaining the ISO certificate and other achievements.

He stressed the importance of the commission's role in the process of modernization and political development, and the need to work to implement its outputs comprehensively, calling for the introduction of a comprehensive plan to raise awareness of the new laws of political reform emanating from the outputs of the Royal Commission for Political Modernization, in an effort to exercise its role in increasing popular participation in the political process in its general and electoral process in particular, asking everyone to assume its national and administrative responsibilities in this regard.  Al-Maaita directed the administrative staff to begin evaluating the recent electoral process and to identify the places of success and strengthen them and places of imbalance if any to address them, as well as to increase coordination and communication with the partners of the electoral process from civil society institutions, political parties and media with the aim of continuing to build positive relations and joint evaluation of the workflow