By Libya Herald staff.
Tripoli. 25 April 2014:
Voting takes place tomorrow to elect councillors for 20 new municipalities. These include . . .[restrict]the Tripoli suburbs of Ain Zara, Garabulli, Swani and Tajoura.
Other places where elections are being held are Ajilat, Al-Jmail, Gubbah, Marj, Obari, Rajban, Reyayna, Rigdaleen, Emslata, Zawia West and Zuwara.
This is the second group in the latest round of new municipality polls. Elections were held last week in Benghazi and 15 other places including Ghadames, Jalu and Nalut.
In all tomorrow’s contests, voters will be electing five general list councillors, as well as woman and a disabled revolutionary councillor.
Meanwhile, it has been announced that so far, 81,000 people have registered to vote for the local council elections in Misrata. The figure is the highest so far for any municipal contest and, with registration which started on 1 April being extended until 1 May, it is expected to top the 90,000-mark.
Perhaps more significantly, it appears that disillusionment with elections has not taken hold in Misrata, as was demonstrably the case in Benghazi where only 70,000 people registered to vote, of whom just 50 percent actually did so last Saturday. When Misrata became one of the first places to organise local council elections just ahead of the first anniversary of the revolution, 100,000 people registered.
According to the Central Committee for Municipal Council Elections, registration for municipal council candidates in Misrata will start in the middle of next week.
It is thought likely that the Misrata elections will take place in three or four weeks’ time, alongside those in Kufra, Sabratha, Sorman and Zawia South. [/restrict]
