EC to finalise next general polls roadmap on May 23

Election Commission will finalise a roadmap for the next general elections in a commission meeting scheduled to be held on May 23.
‘The commission has already scrutinised the draft roadmap prepared by the commission secretariat officials,’ EC secretary M Abdullah told reporters at his office on Sunday.
He said that the commission earlier planned to finalise the roadmap at Sunday’s commission meeting but the commission took more time for it.
After finalising the roadmap, the commission will publish it as a book, he informed.
Replying to a question, the EC secretary said that there should be apprehension about the use of electronic voting machine in the next general election as the commission decided not to introduce the system without the consents of political parties and other stakeholders.
He said the commission was planning to complete dialogues with the 40 registered parties within December.
According to the commission officials, involved in the process of making the draft roadmap, said that in the dialogues the commission would discuss necessary amendments to the electoral laws, rules and the electoral code of conduct.
They said that in the dialogues the proposed use of EVM in the next general elections would be discussed. The move to introduce EVM was earlier criticised in 2010. 

 

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