By Saman Indrajith in The Island, Jan 20, 2023Opposition and SJB Leader Sajith Premadasa told Parliament yesterday that two members of the Elections Commission (EC) had received death threats as they were working hard to hold the local government polls. Participating in the second reading debate on Regulation of Election Expenditure Bill, Premadasa said that the two EC members had already lodged complaints with the police about threats to their lives. “The EC members face threats…
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By Murtaza Solangi in The News, Jan 19, 2023The writer is a journalist.We are in election year again. Ten years back around this time we were in election mode when the terrorism unleashed by the TTP impacted the electioneering and deprived the Awami National Party and Pakistan Peoples Party, two mainstream secular parties from electioneering, especially in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to government reports at that time, 437 people were killed in over…
by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in The Daily Star, Jan 14, 2023The BNP wants to make a final push to realise its demand for holding the next general election under a neutral caretaker administration only after the top brass finds the party’s Dhaka city units fully prepared for an all-out movement. Insiders said the BNP was successful in staging massive protests in the last few months despite various obstacles from the ruling party and administration. It…
Report in The Kathmandu Post,Jan 13th, 2023The largest party in the House of Representatives, Nepali Congress, which is facing criticism for giving its confidence vote to the Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led government, is eying the key positions of President and Speaker. Normally in parliamentary democracy, the main opposition does not give the vote of confidence to the prime minister, but the Congress extended the trust vote to Dahal, which is now courting controversy. Though Congress leaders…
report in economynext, Jan 10, 2023 at 3:41 pmECONOMYNEXT – The ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and the formerly rival centre-right United National Party (UNP), the party headed by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, will join forces to contest the local government elections that may or may not take place in March this year. UNP general secretary Palitha Range Bandara told reporters following a discussion between the president and SLPP representatives Monday January 10 that the…
by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in The Daily Star, Jan 11, 2023The BNP plans a spectacular turnout in today’s sit-in to send the government a message that there is no alternative to a caretaker administration for the next election. Like-minded parties will also organise simultaneous demonstrations in the 10 organisational divisions of the BNP. Their first simultaneous demonstration was held in the capital on December 30. Insiders said they are likely to demonstrate in districts across…
Says State Department spokespersonReport in The Daily Star, Jan 8, 2023US State Department spokesperson Ned Price speaks at the daily briefing, at the State Department in Washington, DC, US, February 25, 2022. File photo: Reuters/Nicholas KammThe US will be watching Bangladesh’s next parliamentary elections closely and supports constructive actions for a genuine electoral process that is peaceful and transparent. “We welcome the words of Sheikh Hasina and her government that they want free and fair…
Report in The Daily Star, Jan 8, 2023Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Oikya Parishad yesterday submitted a memorandum to the prime minister, demanding that the ruling Awami League materialise its election manifesto to protect the rights of minority communities. The submission came after the parishad ended its road march to Dhaka from Chattogram. The parishad also staged a rally in front of the capital’s Ramana Kali Temple. At that time, parishad general secretary Rana Dasgupta read out the…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 8, 2023With the poor show in the November 20 federal and provincial polls and the rise of new forces from elections, the CPN (Maoist Centre) seems to have felt the need for some hard work to keep itself relevant. To bolster its chances, the party has decided to go for a broader left unity. A meeting of office bearers of the ruling party on Saturday formed…
That sinking feeling: An election that no one wants?
by M A Niazi in Pakistan Today, Jan 20, 2023“When the Assembly is dissolved, you get a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach. You are faced with another election.” Thus spoke a Punjab MPA in 1990, when reacting to the dissolution of the Punjab Assembly. That member never made it back to the Assembly. That dissolution had come after President Ghulam Ishaq Khan had used his powers under Article 58 (2-b) of the…