{"id":11523,"date":"2022-03-31T11:07:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T08:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/?p=11523"},"modified":"2022-04-05T10:48:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T07:48:29","slug":"position-paper-municipal-elections-in-the-westbank-a-first-step-towards-inclusive-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/2022\/03\/11523\/","title":{"rendered":"Position Paper: Municipal elections in the Westbank: a first step towards inclusive democracy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11524 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/municipal-election-in-the-westbank-2022.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/municipal-election-in-the-westbank-2022.png 500w, https:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/municipal-election-in-the-westbank-2022-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/>PalThink for Strategic Studies followed the second phase of the electoral process in its second phase with great interest. It was conducted in eleven governorates in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, and was held in fifty local municipalities. Two-hundred thirty-four lists competed in the elections. According to the Chairman of the Central Election Commission, Hanna Nasser, who spoke at the morning press conference in Al-Bireh city on March 26, 2022, independent parties comprised 64.4% of the candidates, while there were 35.6% party lists.\u00a0 The overall turnout was 53% of those eligible to vote despite the challenges of holding regular and permanent elections in all Palestinian areas, sectors, and institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/municipal-election-in-the-westbank-2022.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Read full paper:<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/municipal-election-in-the-westbank-2022.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4729 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/palthink.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kisspng-pdf-computer-file-clip-art-file-format-document-international-conference-on-materials-energy-april-5b630034cc5aa3.784415241533214772837.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"124\" height=\"93\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PalThink for Strategic Studies followed the second phase of the electoral process in its second phase with great interest. It was conducted in eleven governorates in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, and was held in fifty local municipalities. Two-hundred thirty-four lists competed in the elections. According to the Chairman of the Central Election Commission, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[75,61,71,59,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","category-articles","category-new-releases","category-publications","category-research"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Position Paper: Municipal elections in the Westbank: a first step towards inclusive democracy. - Pal-Think For Strategic Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/2022\/03\/11523\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Position Paper: Municipal elections in the Westbank: a first step towards inclusive democracy. - Pal-Think For Strategic Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PalThink for Strategic Studies followed the second phase of the electoral process in its second phase with great interest. 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