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ISLAMABAD: In an unusual move likely to enrage civil society, Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani has disapproved a briefing to a panel on the controversial election act amendment bills to be given by an amalgam of NGOs working to make electoral processes transparent and credible.
Informed sources told Dawn that the Senate Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs was scheduled to meet on July 12 with Senator Taj Haider in the chair. The committee, which has two bills seeking to amend the Elections Act on the agenda of its meeting, has invited the Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen) for a briefing on the bills.
National
May 21, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) has called upon the Parliament to consider an immediate review of the inefficacy of the First-Past-the-Post (FPTP) system to yield truly representative legislatures and governments, and initiate wide-ranging discourse and negotiations on the adoption of Proportional Representation (PR) system that guarantees translation of more than 95 percent of votes cast into representation, says a press release on Thursday.
The obsoleteness of FPTP is becoming more pronounced as the elections are becoming more competitive with polled votes splitting in triangular and at times quadrangular races as higher number of political parties and independent candidates are vying for national and provincial assemblies’ general seats. The PR system is better designed to handle such multipronged electoral races. This system – already in practice for elections to Senate, women’s reserved seats in National Assembly (NA) and pro