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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

COP meets on run-off Sunday

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Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) mem­bers who are con­cerned that Gov­ern­ment's run-off poll pro­pos­al might elim­i­nate third par­ties in elec­tions will have a chance to air their views at a Na­tion­al Coun­cil meet­ing on Sun­day.COP chair­man Car­olyn Seep­er­sad-Bachan said yes­ter­day the par­ty's na­tion­al ex­ec­u­tive, which met on the run-off and oth­er gov­ern­ment con­sti­tu­tion­al re­form is­sues on Wednes­day night, agreed to put the mat­ters be­fore the par­ty's coun­cil.

Seep­er­sad-Bachan said she her­self had not giv­en a view on the con­tro­ver­sial run-off poll is­sue and would not un­til coun­cil mem­bers had com­ment­ed ful­ly on it.COP leader Prakash Ra­mad­har, head of Gov­ern­ment's Con­sti­tu­tion re­form team, has al­so been silent on the leg­is­la­tion.Yes­ter­day, COP sources said a num­ber of mem­bers who had stead­fast­ly fol­lowed the com­mis­sion's var­i­ous con­sul­ta­tions were up­set that the run-off poll idea was not aired at those con­sul­ta­tions.


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