The Election Commission has enforced the election code of conduct, 2022 beginning from today in view of the elections of the House of Representatives and the Province Assembly. The twin elections will be voting on November 20, Sunday in a single phase.
The EC has directed the government at all three levels to make necessary arrangements to implement the code of conduct.
The Nepal government, ministers, provincial government and ministers, constitutional bodies and office-bearers, the government bodies at all three levels and officials there, the local executive and its members, and employees at the federal, provincial, and local levels have been instructed to implement and abide by the code of conduct.
The code of conduct is also for the security bodies, security officials and employees, government, semi-government and public offices, and employees, political parties and their sister organizations, election candidates and people concerned, political parties and elected representative of candidates, vote counting representatives and any person holding the public posts.
The code of conduct that aims to ensure the election is free, impartial, transparent, and held in a peaceful atmosphere was published in the Nepal Gazette on August 29.
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