Move to make political parties' registration compulsory hailed
Staff Correspondent
The Fair Election Monitoring Alliance (Fema) yesterday hailed the caretaker government for its decision to enact a law providing for compulsory registration of all political parties with the Election Commission.The proposed law will guard against mushrooming of political parties with no capability to contribute to democracy or society, it said in a statement. The law should make elaborate provisions prohibiting activities inconsistent with the principles of true democracy and prone to create chaos, confusion and anarchy in society, it added. Fema also hoped that one third of the total candidates nominated by each political party in an election should be women in order to ensure their political empowerment.
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