Election provided that 2% votes rely: CEC

Election provided that 2% votes rely: CEC. Kazi Habibul Awal, the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), has stated that the election could be thought of over if two p.c of the ballots are tallied precisely.

As a solution to the inquiry on whether or not or not the Election Fee could be content material with the proportion of votes, the CEC stated that it’s inconceivable to debate the proportion of votes that I can be content material with. If, nevertheless, two p.c of the votes are tallied, then the election can be thought of full. Equally contentious is the query of what quantity of voters could be thought of acceptable for an election.

At a press convention held on the event of the twelfth Nationwide Parliament election, which occurred on the Bangabandhu Worldwide Convention Heart on Saturday (January 6), he made this assertion in reply to queries posed by media.

In line with the Chief Election Commissioner, there won’t be a single elected official from the Election Fee taking part within the polling course of. In an effort to make the election as acceptable as attainable, we will do all the things in our energy. Officers which can be referred to as again to responsibility are authorities staff. Each attainable coaching has been supplied in an effort to make them conscious.

In reply to the difficulty that the election could be acceptable when a serious political party isn’t taking part within the election, he remarked that it might have been extra acceptable and participative if the BNP had participated within the election. They urged individuals to abstain from casting their ballots. We’re going to recommend that folks ought to point out as much as vote.

Not solely have been there native and worldwide media current on the press convention, but in addition Brigadier Basic (ret.) Md. Ahsan Habib Khan, Begum Rasheda Sultana, Md. Alamgir, Anishur Rahman, EC Secretary Md. Jahangir Alam, Overseas Secretary Masud Bin Momen, and a lot of different people.