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DHAKA, Sept 9, 2025 (BSS) – Election Commission (EC) Senior Secretary Md Akhtar Ahmed today said that the expatriate Bangladeshis will also be able to exercise their voting rights in the upcoming 13th National Parliament elections.
"EC is making all-out efforts to ensure it," he told journalists at a briefing held in front of his office at the Election Building in capital's Agargaon area.
The EC Secretary said they are building platforms to facilitate overseas voting activities.
EC is working sincerely to bring those expatriates, who have NIDs, under registration system, he said, adding that EC will also introduce the in-country postal ballot system for voters engaged in election-related work or in legal custody within the country.
He further said an app or an online platform is being developed for this system.
Once the platform is ready, details will be regularly shared through the media, he said, adding that currently, some technical aspects of the matter have not been finalized, so it is not possible to reveal everything right now.
When asked about the deadline for registering expatriates as voters and voting, the EC Secretary said, “There are some technical challenges in this process. These will be resolved through a ‘trial and error’ method and all the information will be shared with you (the media) in due time, so that expatriates can also know the matter correctly,” he said.
In response to a question regarding boundary re-demarcation, he said, “So far, there has been no decision or discussion in the Election Commission regarding boundary re-demarcation.”
