PPP writes to ECP on contradiction in draft amends to Election Rules 2017.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan People's Party Secretary General Syed Nayyer Hussain Bokhari on Saturday expressed reservations over the draft amendments to the Elections Rules 2017 published by the commission on September 22, 2023.

The ECP had asked for suggestions and objections on the amendments by October 7, 2023.

In a letter addressed to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Secretary, Bokhari has expressed serious concern about a condition imposed in the proposed Form-68 that requires the contesting candidates to provide the total election expenses under campaign finance (under section 211(2) of the Elections Act, 2017) made by a party.

He also observed that sub-rule (3) of rule 161 requires the political parties to submit the details of election expenses within sixty days of the publication of the names of returned candidates in the official gazette, but Form-68 requires the contesting candidates to provide...