Kathmandu, Nepal, October 18, 2022: The Election Commission (EC) has set the October 22 deadline to submit expenses details with fines to those who contested in local elections.
The electoral constitutional body has also warned to cancel the candidates of provincial assemblies of those who were candidates in the local level elections and have not submitted their expenses details. The names will be removed the lists if the fines were not paid within the deadline.
According to the directive issued by the EC, the candidates who have not submitted their expenses details after running in the local level elections also cannot be proportional candidates for the House of Representatives and provincial assembly elections.
As different complaints have been lodged at the EC against 12 candidates for the House of Representatives and 15 candidates for the provincial assemblies under the proportional election system, the EC has stated as “the people who were candidates during local level election but haven’t submitted expenses details and are candidates in the proportional quota to pay the fine by October 22.”
