, April 8 -- The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday announced the election schedule for the women's reserved seats of the 13th parliament, setting May 12 as the date for 'voting'.

EC Senior Secretary Akhtar Ahmed declared the election schedule for the 50 reserved seats at a press briefing at Nirbachan Bhaban.

Although nominally 'elected', the elections to these 50 seats in Parliament are held indirectly, based on the proportional representation of political parties in the 300 directly elected general seats. Following the general election, seats are allocated to parties in proportion to their share of the total seats.

The number of seats for each party is determined by multiplying the number of seats won by 50 and dividing by 300.

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