Next Parliamentary Election
EC to hold dialogues with civil society, journalists
The Election Commission will inaugurate dialogues on September 13 with civil society members and senior journalists to seek their opinions about how to ensure a free and fair parliamentary election.
Prospective amendments to Representation of the People's Order (RPO) 1972, constituency delimitation law and voter list updation, among other issues will be discussed during the meetings, EC Secretary Muhammad Sadiq said yesterday.
The EC will sit with the civil society members on September 13 in NEC auditorium at 11:00am. The date of the dialogue with journalists is not fixed yet.
The commission, however, is still to decide whether it will sit with political parties.
Earlier, Election Commissioner Shah Newaz said the commission had finalised the decision of holding dialogues with civil society members and journalists, but it was not thinking about holding talks with political parities now.
Another commissioner Brig (retd) Zabed Ali said the outline of the next parliamentary election would be finalised on the basis of opinions of all.
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