EU Pre-Election Group to Go to Bangladesh in September Forward of thirteenth Parliamentary Polls…reviews Asian Lite Information

Bangladesh Election Fee’s Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed introduced on Monday {that a} European Union (EU) pre-election statement staff will go to the nation in September to evaluate the electoral setting forward of the thirteenth parliamentary elections, scheduled to happen someday subsequent yr.

Whereas chatting with reporters about preparation for upcoming elections, he mentioned that the EU’s pre-election statement staff will assess the preparation of the Election Fee for the parliamentary elections.

In keeping with the United Information of Bangladesh, Ahmed mentioned that registered political events, as per authorized provisions are required to submit the audited monetary assertion (audit report) of the fast previous calendar yr by July 31. Among the many 51 registered events, 30 have submitted their audit reviews whereas 15 have requested for extension of the deadline and the six others are newly registered.

Among the many newly-registered events, one celebration mentioned that they’re nonetheless not but eligible to submit an audit report based mostly on final yr. He mentioned that 5 different events haven’t responded but. Akhtar Ahmed mentioned that this statistical replace can be forwarded from EC Secretariat to the Fee which is able to take a call on additional motion.

He mentioned that Election Fee acquired 148 purposes for brand new political celebration registration by the June 22 deadline. Amongst these, he mentioned, three have been duplicates whereas 145 different have been legitimate purposes. All of the 145 events have been instructed to provide extra paperwork to change inconsistencies.

“Eighty events have submitted their paperwork. Six sought time extensions. Fifty-nine didn’t reply. We are going to place these circumstances earlier than the Fee for additional directions,” he mentioned, including that the submitted paperwork are being reviewed to verify compliance.

He mentioned that the ballot physique is getting ready to launch two supplementary voter lists by August 10 — one which mentions newly registered voters and one other for deceased voters whose names can be dropped. The EC will settle for purposes about corrections, voting handle adjustments, removing of ineligible or deceased voters from the 2 draft lists till August 21. After inspecting the paperwork, eligible names can be talked about within the voter listing whereas names of deceased can be eliminated. The ultimate electoral rolls listing can be printed on August 31.

He talked about that three separate voter lists can be launched this yr – of which one was printed on March 2 whereas the second can be printed on August 31 and the third one for newly eligible voters on the premise of a contemporary cut-off previous to the announcement of election schedule.