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Next National Election

6 5 pc voters for army deployment: EWG

Staff Correspondent
Around 65 percent voters of the country believe that a free, fair and credible national election is not possible without deployment of army, said a report of Election Working Group (EWG) yesterday.
In addition, 46.5 percent voters think that other types of security forces would not be able to play an impartial role if the election is held under political government, it added.
The EWG, a network of 29 civil society organisations, revealed the report titled "Eye on Election" at a discussion at a hotel in the capital.
The report was prepared on the basis of interview of voters, observation of pre-election environment and data collection. All of these were done by EWG's own observers at 118 constituencies of 55 districts across the country from June to August this year.
The findings on army deployment and other security forces came after interviewing 1,628 voters.
This issue came to discussion after LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam on July 24 at a meeting asked deputy commissioners to prepare for the next parliamentary election without deployment of army.
The EWG's report also found that the series of meetings of Prime Minister and Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina with her party’s grassroots level leaders and electoral campaign of MPs and ministers with government expenses would bar to create level-playing field.
Besides, the registered political parties do not maintain internal democratic practices as they are not transparent in collecting and spending fund at local level, do not take opinion of grass roots level leaders in giving nomination for national election.
Moreover, the parties do not arrange direct election in forming grassroots level committees and do not increase representation of women in the committees.
The report also found around 50 percent equipment of district and upazila level offices were in poor condition or in out of order and around 42 percent post in district level and 32 percent in upazila level remain vacant.
Around 5 percent people believe that the latest delimitation of constituencies for the next election was done to provide privilege to a particular party.
Meanwhile, Election Commissioner Shah Nawaz told
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reporters at his office yesterday that they would take decision whether army would be deployed or not.
The decision whether the much-talked political party Bangladesh Nationalist Front would get registration or not would be taken within one week, he added.