ISLAMABAD: The PTI submitted the checklist of candidates for reserved seats for ladies and minorities within the Nationwide Meeting and three provincial assemblies to the Election Fee of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday however surprisingly determined to maintain the main points secret for now.
The submission got here a day after the ECP partially carried out the Supreme Court docket’s ruling on reserved seats for the celebration, notifying 39 of the 80 returned MNAs as PTI lawmakers after an inordinate delay.
Sources informed Daybreak that as per the Supreme Court docket’s order, the PTI had additionally submitted the signed statements of 41 impartial MNAs stating that they’d contested the Feb 8 common elections because the PTI candidates. Whereas giving its verdict on Thursday, the ECP submitted a doc to the Supreme Court docket in search of steerage on verifying their affiliation within the absence of the celebration’s organisational construction.
In a majority verdict, the Supreme Court docket on July 12 declared the PTI eligible to obtain reserved seats for ladies and non-Muslims within the Nationwide and provincial assemblies, giving it a brand new lease of life within the legislature by declaring it a parliamentary celebration.
Retains particulars underneath wraps amid conflicting statements from celebration leaders
The judgement defined that 39 out of the 80 MNAs, proven by the ECP as PTI candidates, belonged to the celebration. The remaining 41 independents must file duly signed and notarised statements earlier than the ECP inside 15 days, explaining that they contested the overall elections as candidates of a selected political celebration.
PTI spokesman Shoaib Shaheen confirmed to Daybreak that the lists had been submitted to the ECP however stated that the lists had been at the moment held by Kanwal Shauzab. Equally, Aamir Mughal, an office-bearer of PTI’s Islamabad chapter, confirmed the event however was unable to supply the lists.
Curiously, senior PTI chief and former Nationwide Meeting speaker Asad Qaiser said that he was unaware of any lists being submitted to the ECP.
After the Supreme Court docket’s choice to droop the Peshawar Excessive Court docket’s judgement depriving the PTI-backed Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) of reserved seats for ladies and minorities, the ECP suspended the victory notifications of as many as 77 members of the Nationwide and provincial assemblies elected on these seats.
All these seats will now be given to the PTI. The suspended lawmakers included 22 members of the Nationwide Meeting elected on reserved seats. It isn’t clear what number of ladies and minorities have been nominated by the PTI for these reserved seats as events typically submit extra names than the required within the checklist within the order of desire.
A supply within the PTI claimed that the lists weren’t launched deliberately to keep away from potential inside battle, as there is perhaps resentment from these not included or not given desire on the lists.
Printed in Daybreak, July twenty seventh, 2024