By Libya Herald staff.
Tripoli, 29 June 2014:
The High National Elections Commission has released the final batch of preliminary . . .[restrict]results in those areas where voting has been possible to the House of Representatives.
HNEC chairman Emad Al-Seyah told reporters at a press conference this afternoon that these final results were the last of the tallies before a two-day auditing process reviewed the results once again. After this period HNEC’s figures would be open to scrutiny and appeals from candidates and interested parties for 15 days and only then would the final results be released, he added.
The preliminary results are:
Sebha
General List (No. of candidates: 63; No. of seats: 7; votes counted: 95%)
- Ibrahim Ali (1,315 votes)
- Misbah Awhida (1,119)
- Mohamed Arifa (897)
- Ahmed Arhouma (848)
- Mohamed Al-Hadiri (713)
- Mohamed Ajdeed (698)
- Youssef Sidi (533)
Wadi Shati
General List (No. of candidates: 81; No. of seats: 6; votes counted: 99%)
- Ali Al-Qaedi (982)
- Abdullah Lahanish (839)
- Busalah Shalabi (818)
- Al-Hadi Al-Sarir (747)
- Mufteh Al-Kiratihi (705)
- Abdul Rhani Tumi (639)
Obari
General List (No. of candidates: 54; No. of seats: 5; votes counted: 98%)
- Abdul Hafith Al-Sarir (759)
- Abdul Qader Suleiman (660)
- Hassan Saleh (641)
- Abdul Salem Ali (634)
- Ibrahim Ahmed (629)
Murzuk
General List (No. of candidates: 8; No. of seats: 1; votes counted: 85%)
- Mohamed Leynu (3,392)
Yefren
General List (No. of candidates: 11; No. of seats: 1; votes counted: 87%)
- Tarek Buhisa (2,717)
Mazda
General List (No. of candidates: 22; No. of seats: 1; votes counted: 98%)
- Ibtasem Jamea (1,311)
There are 11 seats that have not been filled – the two primarily Amazigh seats in Zuwara and Jadu because of their political boycott and nine others as a result of security issues.
These last comprise three general list seats and one woman’s seat in Derna where security fears resulted in several voting stations not opening in the first place on polling day last Wednesday and three seats in Kufra where opposition from the town’s majority Arab community saw polling stations unable to open. Similarly in Al-Jmail the ballot for the General List and the women’s seat could not go ahead because polling stations were attacked and ballot papers destroyed during the day.
HNEC has said it will not be able to hold elections in the five locations until the political and security problems that prevented them occurring in the first place are resolved. It would not stop the new House of Representatives from meeting, Sayeh has said.
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