Almotamar.net - While the deadline for receiving application to nominations for governor elections in Yemen is the evening of Thursday, the number of applicants has until Wednesday evening reached 189 applications. Meanwhile, teams affiliate of civil society organisations have begun the process of observation of procedures progress after the supervising committees at the Ministry of Local Administration has given more than 42 observers from the organisations special cards for facilitating their work and that is in enhancement of the pursuit of transparency in the first elections of competitive elections of governors of provinces.

Committees supervising elections all over he governorates in Yemen have until Wednesday evening received 189 nomination applications for the posts of the capital mayor and governors of provinces, among them 6 women.

Undersecretary of the Local Administration Ministry Omar al-Akbari, chairman of the elections technical committee said the supervising committee in the day before the last of receiving applications of nomination has accurately finished its tasks and receiving applications of nomination went calmly all over supervising centres all over the provincial capitals.

The Local Administration Undersecretary clarified that nomination applications would be checked and then there will be official announcement of the names whose nomination applications are accepted and that will be next Friday.