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RCCI Ready to Celebrate them & the Ministry of Commerce appoints 6 members next week 7 thousands Voters hose 12 Candidates in the Biggest Marathon of Saudi Business
The marathon race for the members of the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry was concluded at its fifteenth session, during which 40 candidates fought the elections, dispersed into two groups, the development and the associates, and a number of independent candidates, where about 7 thousands of voters to vote for their candidates.
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The development group won the most votes, and claimed 20,745 votes including the categories of traders and industrialists. Khaled ibn Saud Shubaily won the majority of independent group harvesting 2499 votes, and Saad bin Abdullah Al-Ajlan from the associates group won the category of traders.
The Chamber of Commerce has succeeded in organizing the electoral process so ably, as the magnetic cards appeared for the first time in the elections, which was led a big group of Saudi youth.
The chamber had prepared all the substantive and organizational arrangements for the elections supervised by a special committee that reports to the Ministry of Trade and Industry. This session's election is characterized by the businesswomen participation as candidates for the first time in the history of the Riyadh CCRI, amid great interest of the results of the elections, in which 40 candidates are vying for 12 seats through election, while the Ministry of Trade and Industry will appoint 6 members, according to the Chambers of Commerce System.
The manifestations of the electoral process started around the Chamber by setting up camps in the South, where the entry gate of the voters, whereas the first floor was devoted to the election process beginning with registration and identity matching, for which 13 staff has been allocated, then going to the electronic polling cabins previously equipped with 14 screen. The Chamber adopted the electronic election after the election supervising committee has checked the big technical development contained in the electronic ballot applied by the IT department in the Chamber and was widely accepted since the elections of the fourteenth session.
The women section witnessed a hard work to ensure the success of the first significant active participation of women as candidates and voters, and the Chamber is seeking to provide all equipments in the women's section to ensure the success of this experiment that is carried out in an atmosphere that is full of females.
The streets leading to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Riyadh witnessed yesterday evening a heavy security presence to facilitate the movement of voters better than the first day that was characterized by severe overcrowding that hindered the voters from reaching early. It was observed on the second day of the election that hoops of human hand were hold together side by side converting the street leading to the election gate to compulsory corridors to attract the largest possible segment of the electorate for the interest of some senior candidates. Many voters hurried ahead few minutes before the end of the nomination time. "Al-Riyadh" observed a big crowd of voters who attended at the last minute before the closure of nominations, which increased the time of completing their electoral process to almost half an hour. To this extent, Mr, Khalaf Bin Rabah Al Shammari the candidate of the Associates Group, expressed his electoral experience as rich, although he was present for years in Chamber several committees. He said in a press statement to "Al-Riyadh economic" The elections gave us an opportunity for me and my colleagues in our associates group to make program and targets after careful study and strategic plan of the group as the objectives focus on improving the performance of the Chamber, developing its regulations, giving rights to the Chamber associates in a better way, and focusing on showing Riyadh Chamber properly, especially that it bears the name of the capital "Riyadh". On the other hand, the candidates exchanged congratulations with each other soon after the closure of the nomination, emphasizing the spirit of fair competition among them, which was marked during the election.
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