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No extension

CEC says about deadline for nomination filing

Staff Correspondent
The Election Commission (EC) would not extend the time for submission of nomination papers for the upcoming national election, said Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad yesterday.
"The last date for submission of the nomination papers is December 2. The date will remain unchanged," he told reporters at the EC Secretariat.
"We have information that many candidates have already collected nomination papers; we hope that they will be able to submit nominations within the deadline," he added.
When asked whether the EC would change the polls schedule in case main opposition BNP joins the election, the CEC said: "If there is a political consensus, we will con
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sider it from a different viewpoint."
However, several officials of the EC Secretariat told The Daily Starthat the extension of timeframe is necessary because it is difficult for many candidates to complete the procedure of submitting nomination papers with all the necessary information within seven days.
On November 25, the EC announced that the next parliamentary election would be held on January 5 next year.
In response to a question, Rakibuddin once again said the EC does not want to mediate in consensus among the political parties.
"But we always want the consensus so that the election can be held with participation of all political parties," he added.
Meanwhile, William Hanna, European Union (EU) ambassador in Bangladesh, called on the CEC yesterday morning, and said the EU had yet to take any decision whether to deploy observers in the upcoming election or not.
But the CEC claimed that Hanna had hoped to deploy EU observers in the election.
Besides, a 12-member delegation of Jatiya Party (JP) yesterday met with the CEC and placed six-point demands including deferment of the deadline for submission of nomination papers.
The JP's other demands included allocation of 45 minutes in the BTV and Bangladesh Betar for the party chairman to address the nation, creating level-playing field, and a reshuffle in district and upazila level administrations, immediate deployment of the army, and giving magistracy power to the force.
The EC yesterday issued two separate circulars directing the retuning officers across the country to complete appointing election officials, finalise polling centres, and check the information in nomination papers provided by the candidates properly.
The EC also asked them to appoint 20 percent additional election officials than necessary.