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The present report elaborates on the proceedings of a proposed election law seminar held by the Middle East Studies Center on July 30, 2011. Three topics were in focus including the reformist and traditional approaches to the proposed election law, assessment of major issues tackled and its ability to bring about positive political change. In order to come up with an integrated reformist election law, it is important to decide on the system of the process. Such a decision is not a mere technicality connected with phrasing which several experts may address and present hypotheses and solutions. It is a political, social and economic matter for an electoral law to meet expectations, answers must be provided to questions related to the basic question of right in terms of elections and nominations and management and reference in resolving disputes. In a bid to reach a legal wording which pushes for true reform in the Kingdom, the following are recommended by the report to decision-makers and political powers: 1. Calling for fundamental reviews of the draft law proposed by the National Dialogue Committee, taking into account political and public powers' observations to secure freedom and fairness for all categories and establish an Arab model for a democratic life. 2. Calling on the Constitutional Amendments Committee to include in the Constitution texts specifying public and political demands referred to in the report. 3. Calling for comprehensive change in the electoral process congruent with political, economic, social and cultural reform for all sections of the society 4. Warning against any procrastination in carrying out reforms, which would endanger stability in the country.
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