Chief Election Commissioner A M M Nasir Uddin has called a meeting of members of Parliament for Bangladesh’s presidential election. An Election Commission Secretariat notification said the meeting will be held at 2 p.m. on August 20 in the Parliament chamber at the National Parliament Building, the day set for voting in the election.

The notification said the chief election commissioner convened the meeting after consultation with the speaker of Parliament, using powers provided under Section 5(3) of the Presidential Election Act, 1991. Earlier, Election Commission Secretariat Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed said voting would continue without interruption from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the assembly chamber of the National Parliament Building.

Vote counting will begin immediately after polling ends at 5 p.m., in front of ballot boxes kept inside the assembly chamber. The deadline for submitting nominations is August 13, scrutiny is scheduled for August 16, and the final date for withdrawing candidacy is August 18. The Election Commission began preparations for the 23rd presidential election after Bangladesh’s 22nd president, Md Shahabuddin, resigned on July 24.