ECP conforms to apex court verdict on allocating reserved seats to PTI
Pakistan
CEC presides over back-to-back meetings over the issue
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday decided to act upon the Supreme Court decision regarding reserved seats for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidates.
The decision was taken during a meeting held for the second succesive day as Thursday's huddle remained inconclusive.
Friday's meeting was again presided over by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja and "all aspects" of the Supreme Court verdicts were discussed.
The ECP chief advised its legal team to take into account the imperative to act on the apex court's decision.
ECP convenes meeting following SC verdict on reserved seats
THURSDAY'S MEETING
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday convened a meeting following the Supreme Court decision on reserved seats.
The chief election commissioner preside over the meeting. The legal wing of ECP briefed the participants on the decision on reserved seats.
The ECP deliberated on the situation in the aftermath of apex court’s verdict announced last week.
Reserved seats: SC tips the scales in PTI's favour in landmark verdict
Earlier, the Supreme Court overturned the Peshawar High Court's verdict of depriving the PTI of reserved seats of non-Muslim and women candidates in assemblies.
The apex court, in its majority 8-5 decision, announced that the conduct of the Election Commission regarding reserved seats was 'unconstitutional', adding that the PTI would remain intact as a political party even without being assigned an election symbol.
The verdict was authored by Justice Mansoor Ali Shah.
It is likely that the PTI would get 65 out of 77 reserved seats. Of the 77 seats, 22 are of the National Assembly while 55 are of the provincial assemblies.
