The Daily Star has launched a new series of talk show ‘The Election Talks 2018’ where experts are analysing all aspects of the upcoming general elections, contemporary politics, events and incidents.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. In today’s episode of ‘The Election Talks 2018’, Sharmeen Murshid, chief executive officer of a non-government organisation and local election observer group ‘Brotee’, talks with The Daily Star about the upcoming election.
She sheds light on the inclusion process of election observers for the 11th national polls on a one-to-one with Shakhawat Liton, planning editor of The Daily Star.
While listing the election observers this time, the election commission has excluded many experienced observes while many election observer groups were included who are not known to us, she said.
Mentioning that the scope of observing the election is getting reduced, she said, "This shrunken scope has raised questions in our minds."
As an example, she said that during the 2008 elections, number of total international election observers were 593 and local observers were 1,00,059 from 75 organisations. But this time there are only 25 to 26 thousand local observers and under 100 international observers, according to election commission data.
Watch the video to know more!
Leave your comments