Federal spirit in local elections

The parties should let their subnational organisational entities distribute election tickets.

The completion of the first five-year term by democratically elected local governments under the 2015 Constitution is indeed an essential milestone towards institutionalising the country's federal system. For the subsequent tenure, the government has slated May 13, 2022, as the date for the local level elections that will elect 35,041 representatives in 753 municipalities (460 rural and 293 urban) and 6,743 wards within them. It may be recalled that the local elections in 2017 were held after a