By Ahmed Elumami.
Tripoli, 8 December 2013:
Counting is underway in the elections for the new municipal councils in Zintan, Awjila, Traghen and Wadi Atba which took place yesterday. Announcements of preliminary results are expected to start tomorrow.
The four places were the second group of towns to vote for the new councils. Last Saturday, 30 November, saw voters going to polling stations in Beida, Shahat, Tazerbu and Bint Baya. Turnout, however, was low in Beida and Shahat.
“Everything went very, very well yesterday,” Otman Gajiji, Chairman of the Central Committee for Municipal Council Elections (CCME) told the Libya Herald. “There were no security problems.”
The elections in Bint Baya last Saturday were suspended because of security issues at two polling stations during the poll. It is reported that protestors from villages neighbouring Bint Baya disrupted the vote at the two stations, opposed to it being an independent municipality.
The preliminary results for the three other towns – Beida, Shahat and Tazerbu – were finally announced on Friday. They were:
1. Beida
The result for the five “general” council seats were (winners in bold):
- Ali Abdulali Belqasem Hamrri 1,067
- Ali Idris Mohamed Al-Traiki 678
- Abdullah Amtwal Ali Younis 603
- Ali Hussain Mohamed Abu-baker 487
- Mousa Mohamed Muftah Muftah 480
- Adam Mohamed Burjai Aquaider 412
- Ashraf Al-Almi Al-Mabrouk 345
- Akram Faraj Abdlhameed Saleh 332
- Mohamed Faraj Hamed Al-Sharda 291
- Ali Mohamed Ayad Belqasem Al-Madroud 209
- Jalal Rajab Ahmed Bianko 187
- Faraj Al-Twati Hussain Al-Senussi 182
- Ali Mailoud Mohmed Bu-Arousha 165
- Belgassem Hassan Mohamed 162
- Abdulkareem Fadel Ajwaida 154
- Yaser Fadeel Mohamed Al-Musmari 142
- Abdulaziz Juma Fadeel Shuaib 137
- Salah Al-Naji Mohamed Abdullah 130
- Mohamed Omar Al-Haj Mohamed Abu-baker 124
- Abdulwahab Iddris Haiba Sulaiman 122
- Ali Maiuf Mohamed Burwais 110
- Al-Fadeel Awad Al-Sawi Makhyoun 102
- Ezziden Yahya Saleh Al-Issbai 82
- Aymen Saleh Abdullah Khanfer 81
- Rezq Hamad Hassan Arrhaim 77
- Waleed Taher Abdulhameed Bumeliaq 77
- Muftah Mousa Taher Al-Amari 72
- Hamed Taher Ali Attya 69
- Ibrahim Abdulkareem Saad 61
- Majeed Khalifa Abdulmajeed Bukasoula 52
- Adel Taher Ambarek Abu-baker 50
- Ibrahim Omar hassan Bazama 46
- Ahmed Mhash-hash Mohamed Ali 44
- Imhamed Belqasem Mohamed Mahmoud 41
- Said Attya Ambarek Abu-baker 37
- Al-Mabrouk Muamer Imhamed Ahmed 31
- Ali Younis Mohamed Moamen 27
- Abdulraheem Abdulali Taher Abu-baker 14
- Sulaiman Mohamed Sulaiman Shuaib 2,443
- Hammad Saleh Abdulaziz Hammad 2,071
- Abdulwahed Abdulsalam Abdulsadeq 1,622
- Fawzia Ali Younis 1,494
- Yasmena Aghfair Attya Aghfair 1,362
- Najwa Said Shamata Omar 1,352
- Fatthia Dakheel Al-Myar 1,010
- Sussan Hamad Al-Murzqi 682
- Mariam Saleh Abdurabah Qasem 625
2. Shahat
The result for the five “general” council seats were:
- Saleh Ali Mohamed Aubaidallah 1,625
- Hussain Mahmoud Hussain Buqhraiwisha 682
- Othman Othman Fadeel Al-Mayar 288
- Idris Abdulmajeed Abdullah Belhussain 221
- Salah Abdulraheem Al-Mabrouk Mousa 184
- Ezziden Al-Sharif Abdulkareem Mohamed 151
- Saleh Muftah Mohamed Kauidin 128
- Immsaid Bader Muftah Iddris 124
- Abdulwahed Said Omran Zayad 113
- Mohamed Ali Mohamed Shwait 106
- Khaled Said Omar Saber 105
- Ibrahim Jaballah Ali Shaghlouf 91
- Idris Mohamed Khairallah Thaer 88
- Hussain Mohamed Hussain Mustafa 81
- Ahmed Ali Mohamed Abdulsalam 75
- Munair Fadllalah Bashir Sulaiman 52
- Khaled Matooq Ibrahim Matooq 47
- Sulaiman Khaled Abdulrazeq Saleh 37
- Samir Mohamed Ibryak Tratrish 1,270
- Buwahish Al-Ghali Abdulsaleh Mohamed 922
- Ahmed Ibrahim Saleh Hussain 817
- Rezeq Abu-baker Ali Saleh 633
- Jamila Saleh Mohamed Abdurabah 1,460
- Nuria Belqasem Abdulsalam Ibrahim 1,388
- Wedad Kamal Rezeq Dakheel 779
3. Tazerbu
The result for the five “general” council seats were:
- Al-Mahdi Abdullah Mahmoud Al-Shafai 493
- Shames Eddin Abdullah Ighbaili Daoud 191
- Ibrahim Jaidallah Faraj Jwaili 168
- Alian Mohamed Ghishlish 167
- Hussain Mohamed Saleh Faraj Abdulqader 151
- Aqoub Abdulnabi Ihmaida Mohamed 129
- Abdulbaset Mohamed Senussi Mohamed 121
- Attya Faraj Sabbah Rasem 85
- Radi Mustafa Mohamed Muftah 66
- Masoud Mahmoud Abdulkareem Al-Mabri 65
- Mohamed Mousa Mohamed Masoud 37
- Wesam Muftah Yousef Jadallah 36
- Munair Mohamed Abdulwahed Rabia 639
- Issa Abdulqader Mohamed Ali 535
- Faiza Mahmoud Abdulrahman Farajallah 710
- Zahya Issa Aghnaiwa Ihlayel 494
According to Elbahlol, “ interested individuals" have the right to appeal the results by today.
The local CCMCE subcommittee in Bent Baya was working to resolve the issues there so as to be able to continue with the poll, Gajiji said.