Al-Gahrani added that females participation rate amounted to %24 out of all new registers in this session, considering it a reasonable turnout, wishing it would have been higher. He said results would be announced on Sunday afternoon via the elections website. In local committees as well as small committees, direct counting and fast result release will be accessible than in bigger centers, he added. He said that municipal councils appointed members will be announced once the current voting phase is completed, explaining that the member-appointing procedure is meant to relinquish the councils with specialists, had direct elections have not provided needed professionals. Al-Gahtani said the current session will start on 23 Rabi's Awal (current month) for four years. He reported that there are 1330 electoral committees taking part in this election process who are assigned to forward their notes on the process, citing minor notes made so far as the mechanism of election was developed based on the past two experiments. Following the conference, the media was briefed on the voting process, including vote checking, polling, box opening and sealing, vote sorting out and counting, result announcing and allowed to take photos of the election station galleries. --SPA 14:23 LOCAL TIME 11:23 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w