ECP points revised schedule for Punjab polls, notifies Could 14 as new election date – Pakistan

The Election Fee of Pakistan (ECP) issued a revised schedule for Punjab Meeting polls on Wednesday, in keeping with the Supreme Court’s (SC) directives that the elections be held on Could 14 as a substitute of the beforehand notified date of October 8.

The revised schedule was issued in a notification, a replica of which is on the market with Daybreak.com, citing the apex court docket’s order of the day prior to this in a petition filed by the PTI in opposition to the ECP’s resolution to delay the Punjab Meeting elections from the initially determined date of April 30 to October 8.

Elections to the Punjab Meeting have been due since January this 12 months when the home was dissolved. In early March, the ECP had proposed that the elections be held between April 30 and Could 7 and subsequently, President Arif Alvi accepted the fee’s suggestions by setting April 30 because the date for the polls.

The date was formally notified by the electoral watchdog on March 8, however it was later deferred to October 8 in one other notification issued by the ECP on March 22.

Within the newest notification issued at the moment, the fee stated it was recalling its March 22 notification and partially modifying the March 8 notification.

Beneath the revised schedule, the final date for the submitting of appeals in opposition to the choices of the returning officer rejecting or accepting the candidates’ nomination papers has been set as April 10.

The appellate tribunal can determine these appeals by April 17 and a revised checklist of candidates needs to be issued by April 18.

The final date for the withdrawal of candidature and the publication of one other revised checklist of candidates has been set as April 19, following which symbols must be assigned to candidates by April 20.

The elections, in keeping with the SC’s directives, are to be held on Could 14.