TBM Report
The Bangladesh Election Commission (EC) has initiated comprehensive logistical and regulatory frameworks to conduct general elections across all vacant local government tiers by October 2026. Emphasizing the pragmatic legalities of polling administration, Election Commissioner Abdur Rahmanel Masud stated that a definitive statutory declaration remains contingent upon strategic liaison and structural synchronizations with the executive branch of the government.
Addressing the media during the autumn festival hosted by the Reporters Forum for Election and Democracy (RFED) at the Election Commission Secretariat in Agargaon on Monday (July 6, 2026), Masud underscored that the statutory notification for the polls must be Gazetted at least 45 days prior to the targeted election window. The commission is poised to formally dispatch an executive directive to the Local Government Division to expedite the resolution of pending jurisdictional and boundary demarcation issues (delimitation grids) across administrative units.
Detailing the structural vacuum within civilian governance, the Election Commissioner noted that all critical local bodies—including City Corporations, Municipalities (Paurashavas), Upazila Parishads, Union Parishads (UP), and Zila Parishads—are currently operating under state-appointed interim administrators. Under statutory code, Upazila Parishads cannot be constitutionally constituted without the prior democratic election of their constituent Union Parishad and Paurashava representatives, making a bottom-up electoral sequence legally imperative.
Concurrently, Election Commissioner Abul Fazal Md. Sanaullah confirmed that the electoral authority has finalized the revised draft of the Code of Conduct, which has been hosted on the official EC portal for public stakeholder evaluation. The commission is systematically processing feedback on constitutional alignments, and starting next week, the Senior Secretary of the EC will provide bi-weekly operational briefs detailing demarcation finalizations and sequence logs to ensure a transparent, macro-level democratic transition mirroring the framework of the 13th National Parliament Elections.
 has initiated comprehensive logistical and regulatory frameworks to conduct general elections across all vacant local government tiers by October 2026. Emphasizing the pragmatic legalities of polling administration, Election Commissioner Abdur Rahmanel Masud stated that a definitive statutory declaration remains contingent upon strategic liaison and structural synchronizations with the executive branch of the government.){kind=link}