There is a need to reform the election system because it has failed to provide competent political leadership.
LAHORE: There is an urgent need to reform the prevailing election system because the present one has failed to provide competent political leadership. In the present system only those with a lot of money can participate in an election. Two things are immediately required. The first is that voting should be made compulsory. The second is to fill the National Assembly as well as the provincial assemblies through proportional representation.
By adopting this, political parties will becomes strong and politics of issue will hopefully gain some ground.
Those who will be nominated by the political parties in the assemblies will do the real work of making laws for the benefit of the people instead of sleeping and sitting in the assemblies and using funds at their discretion to develop their own constituencies. Without changing the present electoral system there is little chance of changing the status quo and stopping the military from indulging in its frequent misadventures.
Engr ST Hussain
Published in The Express Tribune, November 29th, 2010.
