Party registration starts after getting RPO in couple of days: CEC
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
The Election Commission (EC) will start the registration of country's political parties after getting the final Representation of People's Order (RPO) in a day or two, scaling up the preparation for holding the coming polls, reports UNB.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda disclosed the latest plan Monday, as the caretaker government (CG) geared the administration for the parliamentary elections, earlier cancelled in January last year in the wake of a political crisis over election issues.
"The RPO (law) will be finalised within one or two days. The registration of political parties will start thereafter. Let the law come to our hand," Huda told journalists in reply to a question at the EC Secretariat.
The CEC was talking to the waiting journalists after attending a coordination meeting with the National Identities Revising Authority (NIRA) in the EC conference room where a decision was taken to separate the national ID card task from the voter registration process.
Huda said that the task relative to the national identities card has been separated from the voter registration and a committee and offices for the NIRA, headed by a chairman, have been finalised. "The EC only will collect the basic data in this regard," he said.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda disclosed the latest plan Monday, as the caretaker government (CG) geared the administration for the parliamentary elections, earlier cancelled in January last year in the wake of a political crisis over election issues.
"The RPO (law) will be finalised within one or two days. The registration of political parties will start thereafter. Let the law come to our hand," Huda told journalists in reply to a question at the EC Secretariat.
The CEC was talking to the waiting journalists after attending a coordination meeting with the National Identities Revising Authority (NIRA) in the EC conference room where a decision was taken to separate the national ID card task from the voter registration process.
Huda said that the task relative to the national identities card has been separated from the voter registration and a committee and offices for the NIRA, headed by a chairman, have been finalised. "The EC only will collect the basic data in this regard," he said.