CEC Kazi Habibul Awal. Photo: Collected
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal said that voting in the first phase of upazila elections was held peacefully.
He said this while briefing the journalists at EC office after the voting ended at 4:00pm on Wednesday (8 May).
Around 30 to 40 percent votes might have been cast in this round of polling, he added.
Earlier, Election Commission Additional Secretary Ashok Kumar Debnath said at around 11 o'clock today that peaceful voting is taking place everywhere. We have not yet received any information of any disturbance or any such irregularity from anywhere. Voter turnout data is also low. In the first two hours (8:00 to 10:00) I got information about 7%, 8% and 3% voter attendance, he said.
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