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EC to publish report on its talks with parties

Staff Correspondent
The Election Commission (EC) is going to publish a report on its electoral reforms talks with political parties, drawing the government's attention to some crucial issues including trial of war criminals to keep them away from polls.
The other vital issues include increasing the number of parliamentary seats, proportional representation in parliament, amendments to Article 70 of the Constitution, introduction of bicameral parliament and empowerment of voters to recall their representatives on grounds of failure to perform properly.
Proportional representation is a system in which political parties are represented in parliament in proportion to the percentage of
votes they got in polls.
"Political decisions are required on the issues. The present caretaker government or the next elected one can consider the matters in future,” a source said quoting the EC report that incorporated political parties' recommendations on the issues.
On the EC plan to publish the report, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda had earlier said several times the entire process of holding talks with political parties was transparent, and people will be able to know details of the talks once it (report) is published.
The EC has already finalised the report and directed its secretariat to take steps for publication so that copies of the report can be sent to
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the caretaker government during its planned dialogue with political parties, sources in the EC said.
The EC Secretariat is now working on publishing in a couple of days the report containing entire proceedings of the talks.
In its report, the EC would suggest the government take necessary measures regarding the issues raised by political parties during talks with it, the sources added.
"We' will try to draw the government's attention to some major issues which are beyond the EC's jurisdiction," a senior official at the EC Secretariat told The Daily Star.
The report will also contain political parties' opinions on EC proposals for electoral reforms so that people can know their (parties) stance on those, sources said.
Meanwhile, the EC has rationalised some of its vital proposals such as registration of political parties and restrictions on political parties to have front organisations comprising students and teachers.
About the popular demand for trial of war criminals and disqualifying them from contesting elections, the EC report said the commission would implement it if the government takes a decision to this effect.
In its proposals for electoral reforms, the EC proposed to disqualify convicted war criminals from contesting elections.
The EC began reform talks with parties on September 12 last year and concluded on April 27 this year. It held talks with the parties twice.