CEC Nasir Uddin has said the schedule for the next parliamentary election will be announced in the second week of December as the Election Commission has taken all out preparation. While talking to reporters after inspecting a mock voting exercise demonstrated at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Government Girls High School, the CEC said, "Hopefully, what we expect is that it will be declared in the second week of December. When the schedule is announced, then you will know the dates."
He added, alongside the polls, nationwide referendum is to be held this year, for which time management has become very important. The CEC said the mock voting exercise was arranged to identify what is required to create an ideal environment for a fair, credible and participatory election as promised by the Commission.
"The purpose of arranging it (the mock voting exercise) is to understand, through a practical demonstration, what kind of environment is needed inside a polling station to deliver a fair, acceptable and participatory election we have promised the nation. We wanted to observe everything-what the atmosphere should be like, how the queues of voters should form, how polling officers and presiding officers should sit and operate, how the overall management should function, and even what role you, the journalists, might play," he said.
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