EC's decision on FEMA
What's wrong with the Election Commission? Why have they rejected FEMA? This is a recognised and experienced organisation having thousands of real volunteer-observers throughout the country.
We urge you to write about it and convince the Election Commission to allow FEMA to monitor the election and give general public their observation reports.
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I came to know from the news media that FEMA did not get the accreditation from the Election Commission to observe the upcoming parliament election.
I know about FEMA since it came out with the observation report on Magura-4 by-election.
Since then like so many people of the country I also wait for the FEMA report during the election. But this time the decision taken by the Election Commission disheartened me and I request them to withdraw the ban and allow FEMA to observe the upcoming general election.
FEMA is the leading election monitoring organisation in the country and has set up the standards of election monitoring in a systematic way. In the past we saw FEMA election observation reports to be lauded by a cross section of people. In most of the cases FEMA reports played a supplementary role with the Election Commission to enhance the confidence of the mass people about the outcome of elections.
Rashin, Dhaka
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