The issue arose after President Arif Alvi invited Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja last month for a meeting to “fix an appropriate date” for general elections after the ECP expressed its inability to hold elections within the constitutionally mandated period.
In the statement, the electoral watchdog said the purpose of reducing the duration of the delimitation process is to ensure polls are held at an earliest.
Pakistan's election commission has said it will finish the delimitation process by December 14 to ensure that the next presidential election takes place on time, Geo News reported.
In a meeting with representatives of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) on Tuesday reiterated its demand that the upcoming general elections take place within the 90-day window specified by the constitution, reported ARY News.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) resurrected the hope for polls in February next year as it said that it would work on delimiting constituencies and updating the electoral rolls side by side to ensure that the work is done in the minimum time possible, reported Dawn.
The Election Commission of Pakistan defended its move of delaying polls beyond a 90-day limit and said that the true representation of voters, contesting candidates will be impossible without fresh delimitation of constituencies and revised electoral rolls.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf has rejected the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) decision to carry out new delimitation and announced that it would challenge Council of Common Interest’s (CCI) decision in the apex court, Geo News reported.
The notification states that the ECP is “mandated with the constitutional duty to organise and conduct elections in terms of Article 218(3) of the Constitution and to make such arrangements as are necessary to ensure that the elections are conducted honestly, justly, fairly and in accordance