Islamabad:
Finally, the Muslim League of Pakistan-Nawaz (PML-N) emerged on Friday as the most, the party and its allies simultaneously obtaining two-thirds of the majority of the National Assembly after the Supreme Court allocated seats reserved for the management coalition.
The current parliamentary and political equation in the country has changed after the Superior Court refused Pakistan Tehreek-E-insaf (PTI) which was the subject of the Sunni-Ittehad Council (SIC) for the allocation of reserved seats after hearing a examination.
On July 12, 2024, the Supreme Court had declared PTI a parliamentary party and judged that PTI was eligible to obtain reserved seats which previously distributed among the other parties in the national assemblies and others by the Pakistan Electoral Commission. However, the SC decision in examination petitions has now reversed the same thing.
At the moment, The Total Number of Seats of the Ruling Alliance Stands at 237, Including 125 of the PML-N, 74 of PPPP, 22 of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), Five of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), Four of istehkam-e-pakistan party (IPP) Of Balochistan Awami Party (BAP), National Party (NP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Zia PML-Z) and four independents.
On the contrary, the opposition alliance has total 99 seats, including 80 sic and independent-mainly PTI-11 Jamiat-E-Ulmae-E-Islam-Fazl (Jewish) and one of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M), Pachtunkhwa Mill Awami (MWMAM) and Majdat-E-Muslim (MWMAM).
After the election results in the Senate in April 2024, the leader alliance led by PMLNs has a dominant position in the upper chamber of the Parliament with 61 seats, including the self -employed, as opposed to the 24 seats of the opposition parties.
The majority of the government of coalition put it in a commanding position both in the National Assembly and in the Senate, because it can now even opt for constitutional amendments without facing any obstacle to opposition parties in the two houses. For any government to obtain a majority of two thirds of the National Assembly of 336 members, the support of 224 legislators is required.
Previously, when the government had succeeded in adopting the 26th constitutional amendment, it had succeeded in gaining the support of a Jeu-F opposition party. From now on, the alliance to power will not need support of the opposition benches to adopt a constitutional amendment, which requires two thirds of votes from the Parliament.
The reserved seats had also led to a confrontation between the Parliament and the Supreme Court as president of the National Assembly, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, had written a letter to ECP, asking him to respect parliamentary sovereignty in the distribution of seats reserved for PTI.
The letter had intervened after the SC had judged that the independent candidates, after winning elections, could join political parties and modify their political allegiance followed by a note published by eight judges SC ordering the ECP to implement the judgment as soon as possible.
Thanks to his letter, the speaker had stressed that the Parliament had adopted an amendment to the electoral law, claiming that he prohibited independent candidates who join a party after the election of the ignition of their affiliation.
He stressed that the changes to the elections law were to be applied when the ECP allocates the disputed seats, stressing that the SC’s judgment was rendered before the new law was adopted and therefore became exceeded in the light of legislative changes.
