ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has given the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) until December 27 to submit details of its intra-party elections.
Hearing a petition filed by PTI’s fou
nding member Yousuf Ali on alleged discrepancies in the party’s intra-party polls held earlier this year, the ECP has summoned details of results, candidates, and votes from the party.
During the hearing earlier, Chief Election Commissioner remarked that the PTI had not yet submitted any details of the intra-party polls.
Ali, a former general secretary of the PTI’s Swabi chapter, had filed the peti
tion before the ECP and asked the commission to declare the elections, held on June 12, null and void on the grounds that the polling proces
s had violated the party’s constitution.
The petitioner’s lawyer had told the ECP that the PTI had amended its constitution on May 13 and that the party had not completed the necessary legal formalities while ame
nding the constitution.
The lawyer
had argued that the party’s constitution can only be changed if there is a two-thirds majority of the Central Executive Council supporting it. As per the amended constitution, 2.7 million voter
s had to decide between PTI Chairman Imran Khan or party leader Naik Muhammad Khan.
Published in Daily Times, December 1
9th 2017.
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