A spot made for casting votes in a polling station in Kathmandu. Photo: Chandra Bahadur Ale/Online News.
November 3, Kathmandu. Voting shall be held tomorrow for the election of members of the House of Representatives and the Provincial Assembly for the subsequent 5 years.
According to Election Commission, there are 1 crore 79 lakh 88 thousand 570 voters within the nation.
The workers assigned by the commission to conduct the election have reached the polling station with all the mandatory supplies. They have accomplished all of the preparations for the polling, which shall be held from 7 am to five pm on Sunday, so as to make it straightforward for them to line up, gather poll papers, mark their votes and drop them within the poll field.
In a press convention held on Saturday afternoon, Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh Thapalia has knowledgeable that every one crucial preparations have been accomplished to conduct the elections in a clear, free, truthful and fear-free surroundings.
“Elections are the cornerstone of consultant governance and the individuals‘s proper to manipulate via their chosen representatives is given legitimacy and certainty, so I sincerely enchantment to vote confidently,” he mentioned.
The Commission has declared a public vacation from Friday to Monday, the subsequent day of voting, in order that it’s straightforward for the widespread individuals to achieve their voting houses and return to work after voting. Thapalia mentioned that the mandatory preparations have been made with the intention of not making a scenario the place the liberty and equity of the election might be questioned.
The fee has warned that speedy motion shall be taken in opposition to anybody who tries to occupy the polling station by pressure or by exhibiting worry, panic, doesn’t enable any voter to go to the polling station with highway or gouda, steals, loots, destroys or seizes poll papers, poll packing containers or voting supplies. .
74 thousand 849 safety personnel of Nepal Army, 71 thousand 693 of Nepal Police, 35 thousand 116 of Armed Police Force, 1 thousand 821 safety personnel of National Investigation Department have been deployed for election safety. Similarly, 115,000 policemen who had been recruited for the election are additionally deployed for safety.
In the House of Representatives, 165 constituencies throughout the nation shall be elected via the direct (first-come, first-served) system and 110 individuals shall be elected via the proportional election system. In the identical approach, 330 individuals shall be elected straight and 220 individuals shall be elected via the proportional system.
There are 2,412 candidates within the 165 direct constituencies of the House of Representatives. Among them, there are 1,545 occasion candidates and 867 independent candidates.
There are 3,224 direct candidates for the state meeting. Out of which 2 thousand 130 are occasion candidates and 1 thousand 94 are impartial candidates.
There are 22,227 polling stations in 10,892 polling stations throughout the nation. 141 short-term polling stations have been designated for election staff, safety personnel, prisons and previous age houses. 2 lakh 46 thousand 960 staff have been deployed within the election.
450,000 people who find themselves registered as short-term voters from these polling stations will be capable of vote proportionally for the members of the House of Representatives. In this election, 61 events registered within the Commission have participated straight and 47 events have participated proportionally.