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Benin to start updating electoral register on Oct. 1

Xinhua, September 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

Benin will launch an operation to update the national electoral register on Oct. 1, 2015, just five months before the country holds its presidential elections.

An official source said over the weekend that the commission in charge of supervising the preparation of the Permanent Computerised Electoral List will soon deploy teams across the national territory to set up Communal Updating Commissions (CCA), train CCA agents and transmit the lists to the national commission for compilation.

A timetable released recently by Benin's National Autonomous Electoral Commission indicated that the first round of the presidential elections will be held on Feb. 28, 2016 and the second round will be held on March 13 if no candidate gets an absolute majority. Enditem