Peshawar:
Almost a year and a half after the general elections, the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) will finally be entirely constituted by the induction of legislators on reserved seats. These legislators will take an oath today (Sunday).
A session of the KP assembly will start at 9 a.m. in Peshawar in which a total of 25 members of the provincial assembly (AMP) will take the oath. These legislators include 21 women and 4 minority members, all belonging to opposition parties.
The seats reserved in the KP – where the PTI of Imran Khan is in power – could not be filled due to a controversy on the reserved seats, on which the part in power has deposited. The PTI, however, lost the legal battle for the seats reserved on June 28.
Later, the Pakistan Electoral Commission (ECP) distributed the seats reserved among the opposition parties-the PML-N, the PPP, the JUI-F, the ANP and the PTI-Parlementarians. According to the final distribution of the ECP, the PML-N and the Jui-F have obtained seven seats reserved for women.
The PPP obtained 5 women and 1 minority seat, totaling 10 seats in the Assembly. The ANP and the PTI-Parliamentaires each received 2 general seats and 1 for women. A seat for women was decided between them in a draw.
Elections in the Senate for seven general seats, two seats reserved for women and two seats reserved for religious technocrats / scholars should be held in the KP assembly on July 21 (tomorrow).