PESHAWAR:
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader and former senator Qazi Mohammad Anwar said that the PTI will hold intra-party elections in the first week of November. The elections will be held from the union council (UC) to the tehsil level, beginning with Islamabad.
“We will be in a better position to conduct party elections after the voters list is complete. The list is yet to be completed in Balochistan and Sindh,” Anwar told a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club on Saturday.
Elections will be held after Eidul Azha, probably from November 2, he said. About 7.5 million registered voters are expected to vote for candidates contesting for UC and district-level party portfolios, he added.
The voter lists will also be posted on the party’s website.
Any candidate found employing unfair means to influence the elections will be disqualified. Special attention will be given to make sure money is not distributed among party workers to buy their vote. Anwar said that candidates will not be allowed to contest under any specific panel.
In K-P, 0.5 million voters are registered with the party, including those who registered through the SMS service. Elections will commence from DI Khan and Lakki Marwat.
Elections committees have been set up in the province’s 23 districts with the exception of Torghar, where internal issues have kept the party from the district.
A seven-day schedule will be announced to file nomination papers in the province. They will be scrutinised within two days following the deadline.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 21st, 2012.
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What a joke ... they will waste all their resources on petty elections at the bottom level. This is not even practical. They just should elect the top brass and let them appoint people at the lower levels. These people are really trying "Democracy" it seems. Democracy, real democracy is not implemented anywhere in the world. America, UK, all are sham democracies.
Before Elections: Imran Khan Chairman..
After Elections: Imran Khan Chairman...
Change...?
They did not held it yet? Pity...y ranting about rules and regulations and accountability about and bla bla about other political parties?
Excuse me, but how many times has the date of of this stupendous exercise ever taken since the construction of Panama Canal been pushed ahead?! I guess the Kiddie brigade of PTI really has a fetish for Lollypops handed to them day in and day out by the their erstwhile leader Mr. IK :D
Guy, it takes years to build institutions. so please be patience even if there is some sort of delay in party elections.
@Amer Khawaja...Burnooool...
After fear that the ET will lose its fame if it keep continue the anti PTI policy and now ET want to be indifferent.@Aamer Khawaja:
Great Khan. This man is something.
it will be a change in itself when PTI will complete these elections.
Bravo. Revolution in the making.
PTI will become institution after this election