Election in the last week of Dec or first week of Jan: EC

Staff Reporter :
Election Commissioner Md Alamgir says the upcoming national parliamentary election is to be held sometime between the last week of December this year and the first week of January next year.
“We have not stated whether the election will be held in the last week of December or the first week of January,” the commissioner told the media at his offices on Tuesday. “We said that it would be held sometime between the last week of December and the first week of January.”
The 12th national parliamentary election must be held between November this year and Jan 29, 2024, according to the Bangladesh constitution.
“Work is progressing according to plan,” said Alamgir. “The exact date will be fixed and finalised at a meeting of the commission.”
Awami League (AL) general secretary and also Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said in February that the next general election will be held in December 2023.
In answer to another question, Alamgir said that there were no restrictions to Mohammed Shahabuddin’s election as the president of Bangladesh despite his role as a former commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) because the position of president is a constitutional post and not a profitable one.
Commissioner said according to the ACC law the ACC commissioner will not be able to hold profitable post in his carrier. But the EC has done its job after knowing clearly about the law and order.
During the former president Justice Shabuddin Ahamed there was a case filled about the holding president post as a justice. Later the case dismissed by an order and no one appeal against the order, commissioner Alamgir said.
We have the example of the apex court order over the issue as the president job is a non-profitable one, so newly elected president can hold his chair, he added.