By Muntaha Al-Fadhli, KUNA,
Kuwait : Authorities have removed thousands of advertisements and billboards and posters for candidates contending for parliamentary seats in various districts of the country since dissolution of the former National Assembly.
Head of Secretariat of the Joint Interior-Municipal Elections Committee Mohammad Al-Moussawi said on Sunday more than 26,000 illegal electoral advertisements, slogans and posters had been removed since the issuance of the parliament dissolution decree.
Al-Moussawi told KUNA that Hawalli governorate topped the list, where 6.836 illegal electoral advertisements were wiped off or removed, followed by Farwaniyah governorate, 5,923, 3,530 in Mubarak Al-Kabeer, 3,632 in Ahmadi, 3, 409 in Al-Jahra and 2,731 in the capital.
He said the Kuwait Municipality licensed 457 advertisements and 278 campaigning headquarters.
More than 52 traffic violation tickets were issued for public transportation buses and four for advertisement companies for violating law 4/2008 that prohibited setting up shacks or tents, or putting up posters with the aim of advertising for candidates outside schools transformed into polling stations.
He called on candidates to abide by laws regulating the elections and spare themselves penal action.