Embassies and headquarters of the country's diplomatic missions receive Federal National Council voters today
20 September 2015
Today (Sunday, September 20, 2015) and in 94 polling centers distributed among most of the embassies and headquarters of diplomatic missions of the United Arab Emirates and spread around the world, members of the electoral bodies who are abroad will begin to cast their votes in selecting their representatives from among the members of the Federal National Council.
Today (Sunday, September 20, 2015) and in 94 polling centers distributed among most of the embassies and headquarters of diplomatic missions of the United Arab Emirates and spread around the world, members of the electoral bodies who are abroad will begin to cast their votes in selecting their representatives from among the members of the Federal National Council.
The National Elections Committee confirms that a member of the electoral college wishing to vote outside the country must bring the Emirates ID card as a document that authorizes him to vote. The voter can also use a copy of the Emirates ID, provided that it is accompanied by another personal identification document.
The process of voting abroad will be carried out manually by writing the name of the candidate on the ballot paper, which will be extracted from a dedicated electronic system prepared by the committee, so that the voter’s data will be included in the central election database, confirming the voter’s exercise of his electoral right and preventing the voting process for the same voter from repeating again.
The National Elections Committee urged all members of electoral bodies outside the country to participate in voting in embassies that have completed all procedures for the voting process and provided voters with sufficient information to facilitate the process during the period that extends over the 20 and 21 of September 2015, and from ten in the morning until six in the evening. The time of the country in which the polling station is located.
Members of electoral bodies can learn more information about the voting process and procedures, in addition to knowing the addresses of the country's diplomatic missions abroad by visiting the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: www.mofa.gov.ae and the website of the National Elections Committee: www.uaenec.ae