National
December 17, 2020
ISLAMABAD: The existing legal and constitutional scheme allows election to half of the Senate within a month before the term of the retiring MPs will end.
It implies that the forthcoming election can be held in February as per the government wish with its aim of hurrying up the process to upset the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) plan to abort the Senate poll through resignations from assemblies. The leaving senators’ tenure expires on March 11, 2021 and their replacements can be elected any time after February 11, former Upper House Chairman Barrister Wasim Sajjad explained to The News, when contacted.
He referred to Article 224(3) of the Constitution, which says an election to fill the seats in the Senate, which are to become vacant on the expiration of the term of the members of the Senate shall be held not earlier than thirty days immediately preceding the day on which the vacancies are due to occur.
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