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EC still can cancel party registration

CEC claims commission's authority not curtailed in RPO changes

Staff Correspondent
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Hilda yesterday claimed that the Election Commission's (EC) authority to take action against registered political parties breaching certain registration provisions was not curtailed.
“Some people say that it has now been difficult for the commission to cancel registration. But it is not true," the CEC told reporters on EC Secretariat premises.
He made the remarks when his attention was drawn to the latest changes in
the Representation of the People Order (amendment) ordinance.
The bill passed in parliament on February 21 curtails the EC's power to cancel a political party's registration for violating the provisions regarding nomination of parliamentary candidates and formation of associated bodies.
It is however true that the new law made harder the criteria for registration of a newly floated political party.
According to the new law, a new party seeking registration must have functional headquarters, offices in at least one third
of 64 districts and 100 upazilas or metropolitan thanas, and a minimum 200 voters as members in each of the units.
Previously, it could qualify for registration if it had headquarters and offices in 10 administrative districts and 50 upazila or metropolitan thanas.
The caretaker administration empowered the EC to scrap a political party's registration for failing to pick parliamentary contenders from the panel prepared by the grassroots and forming associated bodies with teachers, students and
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employees or workers.
The commission could also cancel registration of a party lacking provisions in its constitution for electing committees down to the grassroots level through councils and setting aside 33 percent of ail committee positions for women by 2020.
The CEC said there are some mistakes in the bill, which was passed in parliament. "We will ask the law ministry to correct those," he added.
On the EC's authority to cancel registration of a political party on grounds of breaching the registration provisions, the CEC said cancellation of registration of political parties for violating the registration provisions is not related to the power of the EC.
"The people of the country will judge and reject the political parties," he said.
About holding the long overdue elections to Dhaka City Corporation, the CEC said the commission might hold the poll in next July after passage of the city corporation law in parliament.