Losers Plan to Contest Municipal Poll Result
From Times Wire Reports
Losing candidates in Saudi Arabia’s municipal elections said they would contest the results and accused the winners of violating electoral law and unfairly claiming the support of Muslim clerics.
The challengers said the names of the seven winning candidates in the capital, Riyadh, were circulated together on a list, a move they said violated an electoral law forbidding coalitions. The winners also unfairly claimed that they had religious backing, the disgruntled candidates said.
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