The Pakistani Election Commission (ECP) has stated that the country’s next general elections will not be held before October because it will take at least seven months to ensure free, fair, and transparent elections.
According to Radio Pakistan, the election organising authority told President Arif Alvi that it will take four months to finish the delimitation process and 90 days to organise the elections.
The spokesperson went on to say that, given these factors, the elections could only be held in October of this year.
The President’s Secretariat had urged the ECP to recommend dates for the country’s next general elections a day before.
The transformation occurs amid a crisis that arose with the opposition’s no-trust vote being dismissed and the lower chamber of parliament being disbanded on the former’s advice on April 3.
The development of a parliamentary board was authorised during a meeting of the PTI’s central executive committee in Islamabad on Tuesday, which was chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The board will create a policy regarding candidates and ticket distribution, according to sources. In this regard, the prime minister directed that election preparations be accelerated.
PM Imran declared during the news conference that the next general elections would be held across the country in three months, and that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf would give tickets only to its ideological workers after proper consultation at the grassroots level.
Meanwhile, in response to the government’s announcement that general elections will be held within three months, the Supreme Court has summoned the ECP secretary.
