The Election Commission sent its opinions to the National Consensus Commission, contradicting several reform proposals related to the election.
We’ve sent our opinions, expressing different views over 2 proposals – it may be 7-8 or 9-10,” said EC senior secretary Akhtar Ahmed while talking to reporters at his office in the capital on Monday (17 March).
Raising some different views, he said the formation of a commission for the delimitation of constituencies as recommended by the reform commission is not needed.
Besides, a formula of plus or minus 10% voters for the delimitation of constituencies is also not required, he said.
Talking about other different views, he said there is a proposal that the EC should announce a public notification in favour of fairness, credibility and acceptance of a national election within 48 hours of the balloting and before the issuance of gazette notification.
Akhtar Ahmed, however, said they agreed to the reform proposal to keep the national identity services under the authority of the Election Commission. Now the EC is properly providing services to 186 firms from the NID server.
