The National Advisory Committee (NAC) is convened by the Elections Commission<\/a> (EC) and is the highest statutory advisory body for elections. The committee comprises the five members of the Elections Commission, a representative of each of the four candidates contesting the Presidential Elections 2013, a member of the Maldives Broadcasting Commission<\/a>, Maldives Media Council<\/a> and the Human Rights Commission of the Maldives<\/a>, a representative of the Maldives Police Service<\/a> and civil society.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Transparency Maldives’ (TM) Advocacy and Communications Manager, Aiman Rasheed sits on the National Advisory Committee for Elections as the civil society representative.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n At the third meeting of the National Advisory Committee for Elections held at the Elections Commission’s headquarters on 11 August 2013, Transparency Maldives sought clarifications, made comments and observations and gave advice. Citizen concerns raised through social media were conveyed to EC. A summary of the details follow.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1. Members impressed upon the EC the need for SOPs (standard operating procedures) for the proper functioning of NAC.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Outcome: EC will circulate an SOP document of the NAC to all members.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The need for minute keeping, distribution of minutes ahead of the next NAC meeting, endorsement of the minutes by the NAC, setting an agenda ahead of meeting (members to propose agenda items prior to the meeting),<\/p>\n 11 August 2013 The National Advisory Committee (NAC) is convened by the Elections Commission (EC) and is the highest statutory advisory body for elections. The committee comprises the five members of the Elections Commission, a representative of each of the four candidates contesting the Presidential…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transparency.mv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Other points of note:<\/h4>\n
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