PML-N faces new front over delimitation of constituencies: report

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ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the Special Committee on Delimitation of Constituencies was held on Wednesday under National Assembly’s Deputy Speaker Murtaza Javed Abbasi, reported a local media outlet. 

According to an official handout issued after the meeting, the committee agreed on the findings of the Working Group on the Delimitation of Constituencies [carried out] by ECP,” read an official handout issued after the meeting.

The handout also delineated recommendations of the working group which, if adopted by parliament, would scrap delimitations carried out by the ECP on the basis of provisional results of the population census.
Previously, parliament had passed the 24th amendment to the Constitution to allow the election authorities to carry out delimitations on the basis of provisional results of 2017 census, anticipating that final results would be notified before the general elections.

 

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