ISLAMABAD: As there is no law to restrict numbers of seats a candidate can run for, major political parties fielded their heads to run for more than one seats in general elections.
Later, they kept one seat and vacated the other for which by-elections were held, putting more financial burden in the national treasury.
In this regard, a bill has been introduced National Assembly (NA) under which no candidate can contest election for more than one seat at a time.
The NA Standing Committee on Law and Justice today passed the bill.
The session of the NA Standing Committee on Law and Justice was held under the chair of Chaudhry Mahmood Bashir Virk today.
A bill was presented before the NA body to restrict candidates from contesting polls on multiple seats. The bill was passed by the majority of votes of the body’s members.
Prior to the legislation, political leaders used to run for 9 to 10 seats in different constituencies.
A committee member said that the national exchequer bears expenses of approximately Rs110 million for conducting elections in a constituency as per the estimation of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), whereas, the elected candidate can only possess one seat after winning the polls.
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