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Bangladesh Elections on EU Radar

EU Pre-Election Team to Visit Bangladesh in September Ahead of 13th Parliamentary Polls…reports Asian Lite News

Bangladesh Election Commission’s Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed announced on Monday that a European Union (EU) pre-election observation team will visit the country in September to assess the electoral environment ahead of the 13th parliamentary elections, scheduled to take place sometime next year.

While speaking to reporters about preparation for upcoming elections, he said that the EU’s pre-election observation team will assess the preparation of the Election Commission for the parliamentary elections.

According to the United News of Bangladesh, Ahmed said that registered political parties, as per legal provisions are required to submit the audited financial statement (audit report) of the immediate past calendar year by July 31. Among the 51 registered parties, 30 have submitted their audit reports while 15 have requested for extension of the deadline and the six others are newly registered.

Dhaka: A voter shows her Voter ID card as she arrives to cast her vote for Bangladesh general elections, at a polling station in Dhaka on Dec 30, 2018. (Photo: IANS/bdnews24)

Among the newly-registered parties, one party said that they are still not yet eligible to submit an audit report based on last year. He said that five other parties have not responded yet. Akhtar Ahmed said that this statistical update will be forwarded from EC Secretariat to the Commission which will take a decision on further action.

He said that Election Commission received 148 applications for new political party registration by the June 22 deadline. Among those, he said, three were duplicates while 145 other were valid applications. All the 145 parties have been instructed to give more documents to modify inconsistencies.

“Eighty parties have submitted their documents. Six sought time extensions. Fifty-nine did not respond. We will place these cases before the Commission for further instructions,” he said, adding that the submitted documents are being reviewed to check compliance.

He said that the poll body is preparing to release two supplementary voter lists by August 10 — one that mentions newly registered voters and another for deceased voters whose names will be dropped. The EC will accept applications about corrections, voting address changes, removal of ineligible or deceased voters from the two draft lists until August 21. After examining the documents, eligible names will be mentioned in the voter list while names of deceased will be removed. The final electoral rolls list will be published on August 31.

He mentioned that three separate voter lists will be released this year – of which one was published on March 2 while the second one will be published on August 31 and the third one for newly eligible voters on the basis of a fresh cut-off prior to the announcement of election schedule.

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