Islamabad: The PTI’s secretary general, Asad Umar, slammed the ECP’s move, asking under whatever constitutional provision the ECP had moved the date when it had argued in court that it did not have the jurisdiction to do so.
PTI Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhry tweeted that Pakistan now has no constitution.
Moreover, PTI leader Shireen Mazari said the ECP violated the Constitution by cancelling Punjab elections after scheduling and screening candidates.
Afterward, Former PPP senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar called it a “blatant mockery of the Constitution”.
While, Ahmed Bilal Mehboob, president of Pildat, told that the ECP’s rescheduling of the polls, disappointing.
“However, under the law and the circumstances (like the inability of various government agencies to provide funds and security narrated by the ECP), the only remaining course for ECP to invoke Section 58 of the Elections Act, 2017, and alter the election schedule or give a new schedule for the Punjab Assembly election,” he said.
While, He predicted a Supreme Court challenge to the ECP’s ruling.
Fafen’s Muddassir Rizvi stated the Election Commission relied on the executive to conduct polling.
ECP’s choice is unavoidable. He noted that the executive authorities must help the Election Commission in fulfilling its constitutional duties.
He said the ECP based its conclusion on constitutional and legal authority. “The decision has legal merit, which can only be verified by higher courts. He claimed any judicial judgement on the ECP decision would worsen the political instability and polarisation.
“All political parties in parliament must resolve this political dispute.”
