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More than 15.8 million Moroccan voters went to the polls on Wednesday to elect 395 members of the House of Representatives, from among 7288 candidates distributed across 1850 lists.
According to the Moroccan News Agency (MAP), 27 political parties are participating in the elections, with 15 million 801 thousand 162 registered voters on the electoral rolls, including 54 percent men and 46 percent women.
305 deputies will be elected through local electoral districts, while the remaining 90 seats will be distributed across 12 regional districts, one for each region of Morocco.
The number of female candidates for the elections is 2658, representing about 36.5 percent of the total number of candidates.
The announcement of the preliminary results is scheduled to begin on Thursday, after the voting process and vote counting are completed.
According to the Moroccan Constitution, the King appoints the head of government from the political party that leads the results of the House of Representatives elections, while the members of the government are appointed on the proposal of the head of government.
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