Reduces six KP seats in new delimitations,
Islamabad_The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday unfrozen voters lists , enabling voters to make changes, additions, transfers, and corrections to their voting information until October 25.
Following the restructuring of constituencies, the electoral watchdog had previously declared that elections would be conducted by January 2023.
With the aim of facilitating voter participation, the Election Commission has allowed voter lists to remain unfrozen for approximately one month. This window allows eligible individuals to register, update, transfer, or rectify their voter information until October 25.
Earlier, the ECP had introduced new constituency boundaries last year, following the country’s first-ever digital population census. While preliminary lists had already been issued, the final voter lists are set to be released by November
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday decided to invite foreign media and observers for the general elections.
The electoral watchdog had completed all the preparations in line with inviting the foreign media and prepared the code of conduct for the foreign media.
It had been decided to invite the foreign media immediately after the announcement of the election schedule. The foreign media and observers will be given access to visit the polling stations.
The observers will also be allowed to see the process of vote counting and the preparation of the election results.
Earlier,
Election Commission of Pakistan has reduced six assembly seats in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province in new delimitations,
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) decided to launch a legal battle against the ECP over new delimitations which reduced six assembly seats in KP.
The JUI-F spokesperson said in a statement that the election commission promoted the sense of deprivation in KP. The JUI-F decided to form a provincial-level legal team to challenge the new delimitations.
The religio-political party announced to start legal battle to restore the KP’s assembly seats. The spokesperson blamed the ECP for creating an uncertain situation in the country.
While expressing reservations, the JUI-F spokesperson said that instead of increasing the assembly seats on the basis of population, the number of constituencies has decreased despite the new digital census.
It added that JUI-F insisted on the organisation of general elections despite having reservations on the 2023 census data but the ECP created an uncertain situation in the country.
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) also expressed reservations over the new delimitations and formed a legal team to challenge the new delimitations.
Yesterday, the chief election commissioner (CEC) and ECP members approved the preliminary list of new delimitations under the 2023 digital census data.
After CEC’s approval, the commission issued the initial list of the delimitations on its website.
For the National Assembly (NA), the voter quota for Punjab province was fixed at 905,595, 913,000 for Sindh, 907,913 for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 930,900 for Balochistan and 787,954 for Islamabad.
The voter quota for the Punjab Assembly will be 429,929, 428,431 for the Sindh Assembly, 355,270 for the KP Assembly and 292,047 for the Balochistan Assembly.
The election commission will address the objections from October 28 to November 26, whereas, the objections could be filed against the delimitations from September 27 to October 26.
The hearing on the pleas against the delimitations will be conducted till November 25. The ECP will unveil the final delimitations on November 30.
After the publication of the final delimitations, a 54-day election schedule will be announced and general polls will be held in the first week of January 2024.
