Out of the 31, only three have qualified for provisional registration. “The three parties have already received provisional registration. Political Parties Act of 2011 stipulates that a party that has been provisionally registered must apply for full registration within 180 days of the date of provisional registration. The name USP, on the other hand, was reserved on May 31, 2018, and was provisionally registered on November 14, 2018, pending full registration. “PPA has a threshold on the registration of parties and we made it a little bit hard so that not everybody owns a party.

Source: The Star May 11, 2019 21:00 UTC