Summary Lack of legal proceedings leads to difficulty in holding local body elections by November 15.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – It will be difficult to conduct local body elections by November 15 because of the federal and provincial government’s failure to complete legal proceedings for delimitation of constituencies, Dunya News reported.
The Supreme Court had ordered all provinces to conduct local body elections by November 15 and had set a deadline to complete the required legislation by the first week of August. Sources have revealed that the federal and provincial governments have not yet been able to set out laws for delimitation of constituencies making it difficult to conduct local body elections in all the provinces.
Earlier in March, the Supreme Court has ordered all provinces to conduct local body elections by November 15. The case was heard by a three member bench presided by Chief Justice Tasadduq Hussain Jilani. Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had filed a petition against a high court decision that gave authority of delimitation of constituencies to the Government of Punjab. The court order came in response to the petition by ECP. In the order, court had stated that the responsibility of holding fair and free elections was with the ECP and therefore, ECP had the authority for delimitation of constituencies. The court, in return ordered the federal and provincial governments to complete legal proceedings in the next five months.
