- ECP urges CM to advise the governor for the KP assembly session.
- It needs to complete the electoral college for the Senate surveys.
- The election vote in the Senate is expected to take place on July 21.
Islamabad: Before the next Senate surveys in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Pakistan Electoral Commission (ECP) informed the governor of the province and the Minister -Chief that the wise members of the Provincial Assembly (AMP) on the reserved seats cannot participate in the session or in the vote of the Assembly in the senior elections, if we do not administer it, The news reported Tuesday.
The secretary of the PCE, Omar Hamid Khan, wrote letters to Governor Faisal Karim Kundi and chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur and urged an assembly session immediately to take oath the candidates returned to ensure the completion of the electoral college.
He said that the electoral body was under the constitutional obligation to lead the elections to the Senate in KP for which the date was set for July 21. But he noted that the question of the oath administration to returned candidates was still pending and delayed.
Citing the verdict of the constitutional bench of the SC, he declared that on July 2, 2025, a notification of candidates selected on seats reserved for women and non-Muslims was issued, but these members have not yet taken oath, they cannot therefore participate in the session or the vote of the Assembly.
The secretary of the ECP stressed that before, the president of the KP assembly was requested on July 4 to administer the oath to elected members on reserved seats. The speaker informed that the assembly session is not in progress; He cannot call a session.
The secretary of the ECP argued that, according to article 109 of the Constitution, the governor has the power to convene a session of the provincial assembly at his discretion. “In the light of the constitutional and legal imperatives above, I received the honorable ECP to ask His Excellency, the governor of KP, to exercise the powers conferred under article 109 of the Constitution and to convene the session of the Provincial Assembly to the first to ensure the administration of the oath by the speaker of elected members.
In the letter to the chief minister, he declared that, taking into account the constitutional and legal imperatives, the Commission also asked the Governor of the KP to invoke his powers which were conferred on him under article 109 of the Constitution to convene the Provincial Assembly to meet for the administration of the Oath to the person members of the reserved seats for women and non-Muslims Seindat is soaring and doing to speed up the voters.
The secretary also referred to that the High Court of Peshawar, Peshawar, had already rendered the judgment dated from 27-03-2024 in WP n ° 1617-p / 2024 entitled Shazia Tamash Khan, etc. against Pakistan Federation, etc. Administer the oath to candidates returned to seats reserved for women and non-Muslims.
Given the above, he wrote “the Commission considers that it is appropriate to ask the chief minister to issue councils to the governor to summon the KP assembly in terms of article 105 Read with article 130 of the Constitution, to immediately ensure the administration of the oath by the president to the elected members on the seats reserved to carry out the conduct of the Senate elections in the province”.
