The Elections Commission says it plans to open the application for candidacy for the Parliamentary Elections on the 30th of this month.
The Vice President of the Elections Commission Ismail Habeeb said that the application for candidacy would be open from the 30th of this month till the 14th of next month.
Yesterday, the Commission announced that it plans to hold the Parliamentary Elections on the 17th of March which also happens to be the 6th of Ramadan.
The Commission said that there are huge administrative hurdles to holding the Elections on a later date in Ramadan. The Commission said that this includes the decision by the Education Ministry to bring changes to the Academic calendar.
It noted that since the week after the Eid Al-Fitr holidays, schools would hold their exams, the Commission would find it difficult to get the halls as venues for voting.
The Commission also said that they decided to hold the Elections in the first weeks of Ramadan because the government has decided to close down its offices in the last 10 tens of the Holy month and that this would mean that it would be difficult to acquire assistance from government agencies and employees.
