{"id":11722,"date":"2024-02-25T08:10:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T08:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/?p=11722"},"modified":"2024-02-25T08:10:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T08:10:05","slug":"pakistans-poll-body-gears-up-to-hold-presidents-election-by-march-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/pakistans-poll-body-gears-up-to-hold-presidents-election-by-march-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s Poll Body Gears Up To Hold President\u2019s Election By March 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Feb 25: Still struggling to address the rigging allegations after general <a href=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/not-seeking-3rd-term-for-political-gains-but-for-benefit-of-india-pm-modi\/\">elections<\/a> in the country, <a href=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/army-opens-fire-on-pakistani-quadcopters-near-loc-in-poonch\/\">Pakistan<\/a> is now gearing up to elect the new president by March 9.<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/eci-announces-elections-for-56-rs-seats-in-15-states-polls-on-feb27\/\">Election Commission<\/a> of Pakistan (ECP) is set to hold an election for the office of the country\u2019s president by March 9, two days before the retirement of half of the senators after completing their six-year term, Dawn reported quoting sources.<br \/>\n\u201cThe president will be elected by the present senators after setting up of all the four provincial assemblies,\u201d a senior Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) office-bearer said, adding that the election could take place on March 9 or 10.<br \/>\nThe six-party alliance, set to form a coalition government at the Centre under the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Shehbaz Sharif, has already announced Asif Ali Zardari as its consensus candidate for the country\u2019s top constitutional office.<br \/>\nMr. Zardari previously served as the president from September 2008 to 2013 after the resignation of the military ruler Pervez Musharraf.<br \/>\nArticle 41(4) of the Constitution says that \u201celection to the office of president shall be held not earlier than sixty days and not later than thirty days before the expiration of the term of the president in office: Provided that, if the election cannot be held within the period aforesaid because the<a href=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/its-been-6-to-7-years-elections-have-still-not-happened-in-jk-farooq-abdullah\/\"> National Assembly<\/a> is dissolved, it shall be held within thirty days of the general election to the Assembly\u201d.<br \/>\nSince the general elections were held on February 8, the presidential election is required to be conducted by March 9, just two days before the retirement of half of the 100-member Senate.<br \/>\nThe sources said the Senate elections were also due in the first week of March, but because of the delay in the general elections of the National and provincial assemblies, the Senate elections will now be held either in the last week of March or the first week of April which means the upper house will remain dysfunctional and incomplete for some period.<br \/>\nAccording to a PPP leader, it is because of the upcoming presidential election and to ensure Mr. Zardari\u2019s win that the party has stopped its two senators, Nisar Khuhro and Jam Mahtab Dahar, from taking the oath as MPAs in the Sindh Assembly.<br \/>\nAccording to the formula applied for the president\u2019s election, the vote of a senator is counted as a single vote, whereas in the Sindh Assembly, one vote will be equal to nearly four votes.<br \/>\nIn this way, Mr. Zardari will get benefit in the presidential elections.<br \/>\nIncumbent President Dr. Arif Alvi is already on an extended tenure after completing his five-year term on September 9 last year.<br \/>\nArticle 44(1) of the Constitution says that the president will hold office for a term of five years from the day he assumes charge, but he continues to hold the office until a successor is chosen.<br \/>\nDr. Alvi is the country\u2019s fourth democratically elected president to complete the five-year term. The three presidents before Dr. Alvi who completed their full terms were Chaudhary Fazal Elahi (fifth president, from 1973 to 1978), Asif Ali Zardari (11th, from 2008 to 2013), and Mamnoon Hussain (12th, from 2013 to 2018).<br \/>\nTherefore, Dr. Alvi is the third consecutive president to have a full term and the first one to have an extended term due to an incomplete electoral college, which comprises the National Assembly, Senate and the four provincial assemblies.<br \/>\nThe term-wise data of senators suggests that the PML-N and the PPP stand to lose a large chunk of their members \u2014 69 per cent and 57 per cent, respectively \u2014 as they retire on March 11 after completing their terms.<br \/>\nBut after the February 8 polls, both the PML-N and PPP will be able to add to their tally in the Senate. The PTI, however, will be at a definite disadvantage if it fails to conduct the intra-party elections before the Senate polls, and it may have to depend on the SIC to get representation in the upper house of the parliament.<br \/>\nUp until now, the total strength of the Senate has been 100, including 23 members each from the four federating units and four each from erstwhile Fata and Islamabad.<br \/>\nThe 23 seats allocated to a province comprise 14 general seats, four reserved for women, four for technocrats and one for a minority member.<br \/>\nThis time around, though, only 96 members will grace the chamber as the representation of the erstwhile tribal areas will end following their merger with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under the 25th Constitutional Amendment.<br \/>\nThis means that the upcoming elections to the Senate will elect 48 new senators \u2014 11 each from all four provinces on general and technocrats\u2019 seats, two from Islamabad and two minority members from Punjab and Sindh.<br \/>\nAt present, the house has 97 members due to the death of PML-N\u2019s Rana Maqbool Ahmed and the resignations of PTI\u2019s Shaukat Tarin and Anwaarul Haq Kakar of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) after assuming the office of the caretaker prime minister.<br \/>\nThe term of a senator is six years, but half of them retire every three years, and elections are held for new members, according to Dawn.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11723\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11723\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11723\" src=\"https:\/\/jammubulletin.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-25-at-1.37.47-PM-300x187.png\" alt=\"Pakistan\u2019s Poll Body Gears Up To Hold President\u2019s Election By March 9\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pakistan\u2019s Poll Body Gears Up To Hold President\u2019s Election By March 9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Feb 25: Still struggling to address the rigging allegations after general elections in the country, Pakistan is now gearing up to elect the new president by March 9. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is set to hold an election for the office of the country\u2019s president by March 9, two days before the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,22,89,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-header","category-international","category-national","category-political"],"gutentor_comment":0,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan Poll Body Gears Up To Hold President\u2019s Election By Mar 9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Still struggling to 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