EC to scrap IDs of unqualified election observers

The Election Commission (EC) has said some organisations involved in CA election observation are found to have mobilised unqualified and unauthorised persons as observers.

The EC today said that a number of observer groups have deployed government employees, public school teachers, supporters or officer-bearers of political parties, who cannot be work as observers as per the Election Monitoring Directives 2064 B.S, while some appointees do not meet the required academic qualification (SLC pass).

Asking the observer groups not to deploy unqualified people for the purpose of the election monitoring, the EC said that concerned district election offices have been instructed to terminate the IDs of such appointees.

43 local organisations - most of them NGOs funded by foreign donors- and a number of international agencies including UNMIN, The Carter Center and European Union's Election Observer Mission (EOM) have been accredited for election monitoring. nepalnews.com mk Mar 18 08