Claims and protest against candidates enlisted in the published closed list under proportional representative (PR) system of the election to the House of Representatives and Province Assembly can be made until October 15.
The Election Commission permitted time from Sunday to file application of claim and protest regarding the qualification and disqualification of the candidates incorporated in the amended list submitted by different political parties.
EC Secretary and Chief Election Officer towards PR system, Gokarnamani Dawadi, said the EC would publish the final name list of candidates on October 26 by carrying out investigation on the claim and protest.
Any political party should mandatorily get three percent vote of the total valid votes to get PR seats in HoR and 1.5 per cent in province ass embly election. "There is a constitutional provision that there should be 33 per cent representation of women in parliament. So representation of women representatives should be made 33 per cent even after fulfilling it from PR system if it was not met through first-past-the-post election system," Dawadi shared.
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