Poll body chief Rajiv Kumar invited as international observer for Nepal elections

Rajiv Kumar, the chief election commissioner, will go to polling stations in Kathmandu and areas round, as he has been invited as a world observer for the Nepal elections.

Nepal’s ballot panel has invited Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar as a world observer for the forthcoming elections (Photograph: Rajiv Kumar/File)

By Aishwarya Paliwal: Elections are scheduled in Nepal on 20 November 20, 2022 and Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar has been invited as Worldwide Observer for these elections. The elections in Nepal might be held for the Federal and Provincial elections to elect 275 members of the Federal Parliament and 550 seats of the seven Provincial Assemblies.

Rajiv Kumar is main a delegation of ECI officers as a state visitor in Nepal from November 18 to November 22, 2022. As an observer, Rajiv Kumar could be visiting polling stations at Kathmandu and areas round.

SHARING ELECTION KNOWLEDGE WITH NEPAL COUNTERPARTS

ECI additionally has the same Worldwide Election Guests program the place members from different election administration our bodies are invited to expertise firsthand our Basic and Meeting Elections held periodically.

“The Election Fee of India has all the time been within the forefront with fellow Election Administration Our bodies (EMBs) and related worldwide organizations/associations in selling the reason for democracy worldwide, by bilateral in addition to multilateral interactions and has all the time endeavored to advertise contacts, facilitate trade of information and sharing of greatest practices with a view to strengthen democratic establishments and processes,” a launch stated.

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ECI’s India Worldwide Institute of Democracy and Election Administration (IIIDEM) has by far educated greater than 2200 officers from 109 nations, of whom 70 officers from Nepal have additionally been educated as a part of capacity-building initiatives. A capability constructing program for 25 officers from the Election Fee of Nepal can also be scheduled to be held from thirteenth to twenty fourth March 2023 at IIIDEM, the ballot physique stated.

“Representatives from Election Fee of Nepal participated within the just lately held Worldwide Convention hosted by ECI on Convention on ‘Position, Framework & Capability of EMBs’ as a comply with on to the Summit for Democracy’. ECI could be internet hosting two extra Worldwide conferences on the theme of “Inclusive and Accessible elections” as additionally “Expertise in elections” as a part of Cohort actions beneath “Summit for Democracy – Yr of Motion”,” the discharge added.

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ECI had been chairing the Affiliation of World Election Our bodies, which is the world’s largest worldwide group within the discipline of election administration – since Sept 2019 to October 2022. A-WEB at the moment contains 119 Election Administration Our bodies (EMBs) from 109 nations. ECI has now been unanimously elected as the brand new Chair of the Affiliation of Asian Election Authorities (AAEA) for the time period 2022 to 2024 thus globally acknowledging ECI’s presence and environment friendly conduct of elections on this planet’s largest democracy.