President to meet search panel today

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Staff Reporter :
The Search Committee will meet the President today (Monday) to make recommendations on possible successors to the next Election Commission (EC).
The meeting will be held at Bangabhaban around 6.30 PM, according to the President’s Press Secretary Joinal Abedin.
Prior to the meeting, the six-member Search panel will jointly sit for finalizing the names to be proposed to the President for the
post of Chief Election Commissioner and Commissioners
The meeting will be held at the Supreme Court Judges’ Lounge.
On January 25, President Abdul Hamid formed the Search panel, headed by Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, after holding a series of talks with 31 political parties on EC formation.
According to a gazette issued that day, the panel will recommend several names for the posts of the CEC and the other four Election Commissioners for consideration by the government.
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