The election laws involve very long
time scales, so action is needed now for the 2018 municipal elections.
Elections are in the first two weeks of October, and the specific date must be
set by the Council of Ministers 18 months in advance - effectively by the end
of March 2017.
The registration law requires that
voter registration be done in the six months after the date of the election is
marked - that is, April-September this year. But the national census will take
place in August, and it will be extremely difficult to hold an electoral census
as well. Thus there must be a change in the law, which will need to be agreed
this month.
When could the voter registration be
held? The National Elections Commission must set the number of local assembly
members six months before the election, and that is based on the number
of registered voters. Processing and checking the electoral role takes about
two months. That means the registration must end by the end of January 2018,
which suggests electoral registration in the municipalities in November and
December 2017 and in the rest of the country in April-September 2018 for
national elections the following year.
Taken together, this month (March
2017) the Council of Ministers will need to set the municipal election date and
parliament will need to amend the registration law.
Fonte: News reports & clippings
2 March 2017
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