Chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Monday hinted that holding local government elections in Bangladesh before next June was unlikely, as the voter list updating programme was still ongoing.
鈥極ur target is the national election in December. If it is to be held in December, we must announce the election schedule in October,鈥� he said.
The CEC made the remarks while addressing a function organised by the Reporters Forum for Election and Democracy at the Electoral Training Institute in Dhaka.
He noted that the voter list updating programme was currently in progress and would be completed by June.
鈥業f local government elections are held now, they will have to be conducted with 1.6 million deceased voters on the list while excluding new voters,鈥� he added.
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