Unlike the past parliamentary elections including the recent National Council Election, there will be no door-to-door campaigns this time. The Election Commission of Bhutan said this decision has been taken for convenience of both candidates and voters, to avoid invasion of privacy and to prevent corruption. They added this has been done in accordance with the Rules on Elections Conduct and in consultation with all relevant stakeholders.
Phub Dorji, the Director of secretariat of ECB said “All the voters said that door-to-door campaign is not desirable, and even the political parties and the candidates expressed that door-to-door campaign is not desirable. This has been expressed long before but then, we have been saying this is a democracy and it has to continue. But each time we conduct the stakeholder’s meeting, this issue has been time and again raised. Then only we have ultimately decided to do away with this. We have introduced smaller meetings or a meeting at a village level.”
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