Kathmandu, June 10 (UNI) Sixteen Nepali political parties have not submitted election expenditure details to the Election Commission raising questions of accountability, according to a report in THe Himalayan Times on Sunday.
Section 24 of Election Commission Act stipulates that political parties and candidates should submit their election expenditure details within 30 days after the final poll results, but even after six months, some fringe parties have not complied with the legal provision.
Forty-nine parties had contested parliamentary proportional representation election out of which only four — Nepal Communist Party (NCP), Nepali Congress, Federal Socialist Forum-Nepal and RastriyaJanata Party-Nepal — won seats.