Candidates’ list for Balochistan LG polls to be announced today

Elections on reserved LG seats to be held on December 14


Our Correspondent November 15, 2022

QUETTA:

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will publish the list of candidates who have submitted their nomination papers for the upcoming elections on the reserved seats of the local government in Balochistan on Tuesday (today).

The names of the candidates competing for the reserved seats of local government in all union councils, municipal corporations and municipal committees of 32 districts of the province will be displayed outside the office of returning officers.

The polls on the reserved LG seats would be held on December 14, the ECP notification read.

Similarly, the list of candidates will also be published today after the scrutiny of the nomination papers in the direct election in the Lasbela and Hub districts, where the polling will be held on December 11.

As per the schedule issued earlier, the candidates were to submit nomination papers by November 12. Earlier, the willing contestants were asked to submit nomination papers from November 7 to 9.

The deadline for filing nomination papers for the polls in the 32 districts of the province was extended by three days and ended on November 12.

The scrutiny would be completed by November 17. Appeals would be fileable from November 18-21.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 15th, 2022.

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