News in brief: Council elections scheduled for April 4
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20 Nov 2019, 9:00 AM
The fourth local council elections of the Maldives will take place April 4 next year, the Elections Commission announced on Wednesday.
Elected island, atoll, and city councils with three-year terms were introduced in the Maldives for the first time under a landmark decentralisation law mandated by the 2008 constitution. The first elections were held in February 2011. Ahead of the third elections in May 2017, parliament revised the law to reduce the number of councillors to 653 from more than 1,000.
Significant changes are expected to be made to the decentralisation law ahead of the next polls, including a quota to reserve one-third of seats for female candidates.
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