ISLAMABAD: After the speaker of the National Assembly wrote a letter to the election commissioner of Pakistan, the party position in the house has changed.
Following the letter, 80 members of the PTI have been shown as members of the Sunni Ittehad Council.
According to the list issued by the National Assembly secretariat on September 18, the PML-N has 110, PPP 69, MQM 22, League 5, IPP 4, and Muslim League (Zia), National Party and Balochistan Awami Party have one member each in the house.
A day earlier, it emerged National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq had written a letter to the Election Commission of Pakistan, asking it to allocate the reserved seats of the house under the Election Act 2024.
In the letter, the speaker said that in order to maintain the independence of Parliament, the election commission should allocate the reserved seats under the Election Act 2024.
Any member who did not submit a certificate showing their affiliation with a political party would be considered as an independent. The independent candidates are not allowed to change party affiliation under the new law, he added.
The speaker said that after the passage of the Election Act 2024, the president signed it into a law in August. Now, the ECP should follow the new law and allocate the reserved seats in the National Assembly accordingly.
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