The Ministry of State for Federal National Council (FNC) Matters, held a brainstorming session in Abu Dhabi on Monday, March 6, 2017, to explore measures to boost operations at the Technical Board of the National Elections Commission (NEC).

The session includes in the Ministry's initiatives to identify and benefit from electoral best practices to enhance the national electoral process and adhere to the greatest global requirements of precision and transparency. This conference enhances a current thinking session with committees from private emirates that checked out means to best electoral processes.

His Excellency Tariq Hilal Lootah, Undersecretary of the Ministry of State for Federal National Council Affairs, stated: "The Technical Board is capitalising on all readily available resources to give ample support for the National Elections Commission's efforts, and to carry out the essential electronic systems and technological requirements for the success of the selecting process. These actions reflect the Committee's deep understanding and insight right into the singularities and needs of Emirati culture."

" The Ministry is adamant to perfect the selecting process, drawing lessons from previous Federal National Council political elections," H.E. Lootah proceeded. "This thinking session offers to combine efforts to enhance and streamline the operations of all committees that are functioning towards this nationwide objective - not the very least which is the Technical Board."

H.E. added: "The brainstorming session follows regulations from the UAE's leaders, that have actually called for devoting all available resources - and generating strong and innovative suggestions-- to guarantee the success of the legislative process. It is an opportunity to reflect on the successes we have actually had up until now and improve them to improve future electoral cycles."

The session explored key variables that stand to boost the Technical Committee's operate in close sychronisation with the National Elections Committee, and to ensure more successes with future Federal National Council elections. This, consequently, cements the UAE's standing as a leader and an instance to various other nations in the region with regards to legislative parliamentary elections.

The session likewise analyzed the committees' role during the citizen enrollment phase, that includes assisting citizens to cast their tallies electronically in the UAE or abroad, along with numerous technical and management elections-related problems.