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Chief Election Commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Monday hinted that holding local government elections before next June is unlikely, as the voter list updating programme is still ongoing. "Our target is the national election in December. If it is to be held in December, we must announce the election schedule in October," he said.
The CEC made the remarks while addressing a function organised by the Reporters Forum for Election and Democracy (RFED) at the Electoral Training Institute in the capital. He noted that the voter list updating programme is currently in progress and will be completed by June. "If 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," he added.
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