{"id":417,"date":"2025-08-11T15:51:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/?page_id=417"},"modified":"2025-11-10T09:26:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:26:45","slug":"other-elected-representation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/about-oman\/legislature\/other-elected-representation\/","title":{"rendered":"Other elected representation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cs-content\" class=\"cs-content\"><div class=\"x-div e417-e1 mbl-0\"><div class=\"x-div e417-e2-v0 mbl-0 mbl-1 fm-comp fm-container-1-col\"><div class=\"x-text x-text-headline e417-e3-v0 mbl-2 fm-comp fm-h2\"><div class=\"x-text-content\"><div class=\"x-text-content-text\"><h2 class=\"x-text-content-text-primary\">Municipal Councils<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-text x-content e417-e4-v0 mbl-3 fm-comp fm-text-standard\"><p>Since 2012 Oman has a system of representation at the local council level.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the councils is to give people a say at local level on matters relating to infrastructure, health and the environment, as well as on social and economic issues.<\/p>\n<p>In the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1130236\/oman\/mc-polls-close-with-a-voter-turnout-of-3742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1130236\/oman\/mc-polls-close-with-a-voter-turnout-of-3742\" aria-label=\"last elections held in 2022 - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" uw-rm-external-link-id=\"https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1130236\/oman\/mc-polls-close-with-a-voter-turnout-of-3742$lastelectionsheldin2022\">last elections held in 2022<\/a>, 727 candidates contested 126 seats on municipal councils based in each of the Wilayats (provinces) of Oman.<\/p>\n<p>The next elections are scheduled to be held in 2026.<\/p><\/div><hr class=\"x-line e417-e5-v0 mbl-4\"\/><\/div><div class=\"x-div e417-e6-v0 mbl-0 mbl-1 fm-comp fm-container-1-col\"><div class=\"x-text x-text-headline e417-e7-v0 mbl-2 fm-comp fm-h2\"><div class=\"x-text-content\"><div class=\"x-text-content-text\"><h2 class=\"x-text-content-text-primary\">Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"x-text x-content e417-e8-v0 mbl-3 fm-comp fm-text-standard\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/omanchamber.om\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/omanchamber.om\" aria-label=\"The Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry - open in a new tab\" data-uw-rm-ext-link=\"\" uw-rm-external-link-id=\"https:\/\/omanchamber.om\/$theomanchamberofcommerceandindustry\">The Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>acts as the voice of the private sector in Oman through elections among the private sector companies that make up its membership.<\/p>\n<p>These elections are held to choose the members of its boards of directors both at a national level and at its branches throughout Oman.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Municipal Councils Since 2012 Oman has a system of representation at the local council level. The aim of the councils is to give people a say at local level on matters relating to infrastructure, health and the environment, as well as on social and economic issues. In the\u00a0last elections held in 2022, 727 candidates contested 126 seats on municipal councils &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/about-oman\/legislature\/other-elected-representation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5016,"parent":381,"menu_order":55,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-oman","category-legislature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5480,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/417\/revisions\/5480"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}