KATHMANDU: The Election Commission (EC) has called on political parties willing to participate in the election under the proportional representation category to the House of Representatives scheduled for coming March 5 to file application.

Issuing a notice today, the EC urged the interested political parties to submit their applications from 10:00 am of December 7 to 4:00 pm of December 9 as per the approved election schedule.

The EC has already set up the office of Election Officer at its office, Kantipath, and EC Secretary Mahadev Pantha, has been assigned as election officer for this purpose. It will publish the name list of political parties submitting their applications for proportional category from 10:00 am-4:00 pm on December 10.

The political parties filing their applications for proportional category should submit the closed list of their candidates on December 28 and 29 from 10:00 am-4:00 pm, shared EC Spokesperson Narayan Prasad Bhattarai.

As per the election programme under the first-past-the-post election category, nomination of the candidates would be registered on January 20 and the list of candidates would be published on the same day.

January 21 has been determined as the deadline to file complaints against candidates. The name list of candidates would be published on January 22.

Candidates could withdraw their names on January 23 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm and election symbol would be allocated to candidates after publishing the final name list of candidates on the same day.

Similarly, the EC has also been making preparation for the National Assembly election scheduled for January 25.