Parliament
House of Advisers to be renewed by third in September
Morocco Times, Morocco
The deposit of candidatures for this poll was fixed to be from Monday Aug. 28 to Thursday Aug. 30 at midday, specified the same source, adding that the election campaign will be held from Friday Sept. 1 to Thursday Sept. 7, 2006 at midnight.
The total number of seats to be renewed is 90, divided into several electoral colleges, and the number of registered voters is 44.547, whereas the total number of poll bureaus is 343.
By electoral colleges, the employees will have 9 seats, local communities (54 seats), chambers of agriculture (11 seats), chambers of commerce, industry and service (8 seats), chambers of handicraft industry (7 seats) and chambers of maritime fishing (1 seat).
Concerning the electoral body, it consists of 20,158 (provisional workforce) registered voters of the college of employees, 23,213 (local communities), 444 (chambers of agriculture), 410 (chambers of commerce, industry, and service), 250 (chambers of handicraft industry) and 72 (chambers of sea fishing).
In addition, 130 polling bureaus will be open for the election of the employees’ representatives, 189 for local communities, 9 for chambers of agriculture, 6 for chambers of commerce, industry and services, 7 for chambers of handicraft industry and 2 for chambers of maritime fishing.