PPP terms Election Amendment Ordinance 2021 an attack on constitution
The PPP leader said Senate election will be annulled if the ordinance is repealed.
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) on Sunday while terming the Election Amendment Ordinance 2021 as an attack on the constitution and parliament said that the government itself has created a constitutional crisis.
Addressing a press conference flanked by party leader and Senator Sherry Rehman in Karachi on Sunday, Senator Mian Raza Rabbani said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led (PTI) cabinet is playing with the country’s constitution, adding that the cabinet is blind and cannot read the constitution.
The PPP leader said that if elections are held under an ordinance and the ordinance is repealed, then the whole election will be annulled.
Rabbani said that the Election Commission has filed its reply in the Supreme Court, adding that the ECP has replied that the Senate and the National Assembly elections will be according to the constitution. The ECP had made it clear that the Senate elections through open ballot cannot be held unless there is a constitutional amendment and now the government has also put the Election Commission before the Supreme Court.
Further taking a jibe at the government, he asked why the Senate and the National Assembly were convened if legislation was to be enacted, adding that the life of the ordinance is only 120 days. The Senate election is being made controversial by ridiculing with the parliament.
The Senator went on to say that the President can issue an ordinance but the first condition was that a meeting of the Senate and the National Assembly should not be convened, adding that this ordinance is malicious.
He alleged that by bringing the ordinance, it was felt that an attempt was being made to put pressure on the Supreme Court. I have never seen such legislation in my life, he said.
Speaking on the occasion, PPP leader Sherry Rehman said that the government didn’t hold consultation for constitutional amendment, adding they [government] have made the parliament an ordinance factory.
