Municipal Elections: 356 Candidates Registered in Five Cities

11 years, 4 months ago - November 22, 2012

30 Returning officers recorded 356 applications in five cities in the municipal elections of December 9. Quatre-Bornes stands out with almost equal numbers of men and women registered for political parties.

The Nomination day in the forthcoming municipal elections ended at 16 hours, Wednesday, Nov. 21. 356 candidates have submitted their applications, of which 295 in the name of the group, or political parties and 61 independent alliance. A total of 101 women against 255 men were candidates for 90 council seats to be filled.

Port-Louis is left with the largest number of candidates with 118, followed by Curepipe with 70, with 62 Beau-Bassin/Rose-Hill of Vacoas / Phoenix with 58 and with 48 Quatre-Bornes.

The town of Quatre-Bornes rose to a point of gender / women which is registered candidates under the banner of a group or alliance. In fact 17 women candidates in these elections will be for the Remake 2000, the Labour-Party alliance Mauritian Social Democrat (PTr-PMSD) or fraternal greens.

It will probably just that the direction of the government alliance allows Ariane Oxhenam, sacrificed to Jean Paul Chong pressure of PMSD, to be a candidate for the number of candidates exceeds that of party candidates in the city flowers.

Moreover, 61 citizens, including six women, will run for re-election in urban areas as an independent.

385,292 voters are going to the polls in the five cities in a month. Port-Louis obviously brings the greatest number of potential voters with 110,916 registered voters who will elect 24 councilors, three for each of the 8 districts. Follow in order, Vacoas / Phoenix with 80,330 for 18 counselors, Beau Bassin / Rose Hill with 76,239 voters for 18 counselors also Curepipe with 60,632 voters and 15 councilors Quatre-Bornes with 57,175 voters 15 councilors.

Training or political alliance must necessarily align at least three women candidates in each of the districts they covet. This represents a minimum of 30 candidates to find for both competing blocs.

Text by Le Matinal

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