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The Awami League and BNP will meet with the US pre-election assessment team tomorrow to discuss the upcoming national elections in Bangladesh.
At 10:00 a.m., the BNP will meet with a delegation from the combined IRI and NDI pre-election evaluation mission at the BNP Chairperson’s Gulshan office, according to UNB, citing Sayrul Kabir Khan of the BNP media cell.
The team will be led by BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, who will also offer the party’s remarks on the anticipated early January 2019 general election.
Around 11:00 a.m., according to sources at AL, the team will also meet with a delegation of AL, which will be led by AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader, at the Sheraton hotel in Banani.
The joint pre-election assessment mission (PEAM) of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI) arrived in Bangladesh on Saturday to monitor election preparations and carry out an unbiased evaluation.
The six-person team will meet with a variety of election stakeholders from October 8 to 12, including representatives from the government, political party leaders, election officials, civil society, and others.
Karl F. Inderfurth, a former assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs, and Bonnie Glick, a former deputy administrator of USAID, jointly serve as the delegation’s co-chairs. Along with Johanna Kao of IRI and Manpreet Singh Anand of NDI, the group also comprises Maria Chin Abdullah, a former member of the Malaysian House of Representatives, Jamil Jaffer, a former assistant counsel to the president of the United States, and Jamil Jaffer, former associate counsel.
Today was the day of the team’s meeting with the Bangladeshi Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The delegation’s assessment will be carried out in conformity with Bangladeshi law and the Declaration of Principles for International Election Observation, which was agreed upon in 2005 at the UN.
The delegation will publish a summary of its major conclusions and analysis of the pre-election atmosphere after its activities are complete. Additionally, it will include actionable suggestions for boosting the legitimacy of the process and public confidence in the elections.
Internationally, democratic institutions and practices are supported and strengthened by NDI and IRI, two non-partisan, nongovernmental organizations.
Over the past 30 years, the institutes have jointly monitored more than 200 elections in more than 50 different nations.
