Election monitoring bodies must register with EC: Humayun
The election monitoring organisations must register with the Election Commission for accreditation to observe the upcoming elections, EC Secretary M Humayun Kabir said yesterday.
“The EC has formulated a draft policy for the local election observers,” he told a press briefing at the EC secretariat yesterday afternoon.
The EC secretary said the registration of the election observers would be accredited to the commission for one year and they would be able to monitor any election during the term with their accreditation.
He said according to the new policy an election observer would have educational qualification of at least SSC and must be above 25 years of age. “They will be allowed to stay during the ballot counting,” he said.
Replying to a question, Humayun Kabir said the commission already had a different policy for the foreign election observers and that also might be amended as per the new domestic observer policy.
He said all the organisations should be individually registered with the EC and two organisations would be allowed to monitor the polls in every upazila area. “In such a way the organisations of election observers will be evenly distributed,” he said.
The EC secretary said at least one observer must have to stay in every polling center but maximum one observer would be allowed to stay in each booth.
Replying to a question, he said the circulation for the election observers' registration would be published after finalising the observation policy within the middle of October.
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