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The Supervisory Committee for the Shura Council Elections has received many grievances and objections regarding voter lists and a number of them have been accepted.
Poll campaigns must be free of tribal, religious biases
04 Aug 2021 - 9:09
Eligible voters register for Shura Council election at one of the voting registration centres yesterday.
By Sidi Mohamed | The Peninsula
Doha: Brigadier Salem Saqr Al Muraikhi, Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Committee for the Shura Council Elections, has said that the election campaign for the Shura Council will not start before September 15 and that everyone should respect the relevant laws.
He added that there are many regulations that a candidate must adhere to including a candidate must not start the election campaign before the specified time and the election campaign must not contain tribal or religious biases or content that can offend other candidate.
Introduction
On November 3, 2020, Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Aal Thani announced that in October 2021, for the first time in Qatari history, elections would be held for the Qatari Shura Council, or parliament. This is not the first time parliamentary elections have been announced in Qatar. This already happened once during the reign of the present emir, in 2017, and several times during the reign of the previous emir, his father Hamad bin Khalifa Aal Thani; in all these cases the elections were subsequently postponed.
The emir made the announcement in a speech at the opening of the parliament s 49th session. He said: The preparations for the parliamentary elections have almost reached their conclusion, and they will be held next October, if Allah wills it, in accordance with the constitution, which was ratified 18 years ago in a 2003 referendum and published in 2004. Thus, an important step was taken to strengthen Qatar s tradition of
College of Law at HBKU holds webinar on Qatar s democracy and constitution
23 Dec 2020 - 9:16
Experts sharing their scholarly knowledge during the event.
The Peninsula
Doha: To coincide with the celebration of Qatar National Day, the College of Law at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) recently presented an online colloquium Reflections on Democracy and the Constitution of Qatar.
Framing the first public discussion of this subject was the recent announcement by Amir H H Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, that the country will hold the first elections for its Shura Council (Advisory Council) in 2021, in accordance with the Permanent Constitution. The Shura Council is Qatar’s legislative body, also responsible for determining the general budget and providing a check on executive powers. The election of 30 of its 45 members is considered an important step toward the wider participation of the country’s citizenship in its legislative process.