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As the electoral campaign for the upcoming localities entered its second week, the final numbers related to the candidacy files began to become clearer, following the completion of the study of the files, the adjudication of appeals, and the expiration of the deadlines for replacing candidates. A comparison between the latest tally announced by the Independent National Election Authority and the new statement of one of its members showed that the number of approved lists decreased by 70 lists, after their files did not meet the required legal conditions.
Mohamed Lahcen Zghidi, Vice President of the Independent National Election Authority, revealed that 5,995 electoral lists had been approved to participate in the elections to renew the municipal and state popular councils, scheduled for November 28, explaining during a press conference held Thursday in the capital that this tally was distributed between 5,568 lists for the municipal popular councils and 427 lists for the state popular councils.
Comparing these numbers with the previous tally announced by the Independent National Election Authority, it is clear that there has been a decline in the number of approved lists by 70 lists, as the number of municipal lists moved from 5,631 lists to 5,568 lists, a difference of 63 lists, while the number of state lists decreased from 434 lists to 427 lists, a difference of 7 lists, and thus the total number of lists moved from 6,065 lists in the previous tally to 5,995 lists, according to the statement of the authority member.
This difference is due to a number of lists not meeting the legal conditions required for accreditation, in addition to the inability of some political parties to compensate candidates whose files were rejected or excluded within the legal deadlines for succession, which prevented these lists from completing the conditions for final accreditation, so that the process ended with a total of 70 lists less than the previously announced number.
In a related context, the electoral campaign recorded intense field activity during its first week, with neighborhood meetings and gatherings exceeding 27,000 demonstrations across various regions of the country, according to what was revealed by Zghidi, who also touched on the arrangements adopted to enable the candidates to benefit from the media spaces allocated to them to introduce their electoral programs.
In this context, the spokesman pointed out the adoption of a new formula for registration and media expression, which is based on distributing the process across five television centers distributed in Algiers, Oran, Constantine, Bashar and Ouargla, allowing candidates to benefit from this service across several regions of the country, and relieving them of the hassle of traveling to the capital.
Regarding the extent to which political parties and free lists exploit the media quotas granted to them, the numbers provided showed the registration of 163 exploited television units out of 800 allocated units, a rate of 20.4 percent, while the three national radio stations counted the exploitation of 439 units out of a total of 2,400 units, representing 18.39 percent.
At the local radio level, the number of exploited units reached 1,215 out of 18,156 units, an estimated rate of 6.7 percent, bringing the total number of exploited shares across television and national and local radio to 1,817 units out of 21,356 units, equivalent to 8.5 percent.
In the face of these numbers, Zughidi called on the political parties and the heads of the free lists to intensify their media presence and not miss the available opportunities to introduce their programs and visions, by accelerating the registration of their shares and coordinating with the state radio stations, especially since the Independent National Elections Authority has intensified its movements, centrally and locally, to motivate representatives of the lists to exploit these capabilities, which, according to him, was reflected in the increase in the pace of registrations in recent days.
