[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text dp_text_size=”size-4″]The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) stated on Friday that by-elections for 33 National Assembly seats, which became vacant after NA Speaker Raja Pervaiz Asraf accepted the resignations of the PTI legislators, will take place on March 16.
Nomination papers for the by-polls can be submitted from February 6 to February 8, according the ECP’s schedule.
The seats where bye-elections would be held include: NA-04 Swat, NA-17 Haripur, NA-18 Swabi, NA-25 and NA-26 Nowshera, NA-32 Kohat, NA-38 Dera Ismail Khan, NA-43 Khyber, NA-52, 53, and NA-54 Islamabad, NA-57, 59, 60, 62 and NA-63 Rawalpindi, NA-67 Jhelum, NA-97 Bhakkar, NA-126 and NA-130 Lahore, NA-155 and NA-156 Multan, NA-191 Dera Ghazi Khan, NA-241, 242. 243, 244, 247, 250, 252, 254, and NA-256 Karachi and NA-265 Quetta .
The election watchdog announced that the nomination papers would be scrutinised on February 9 and that candidates would receive their election insignia on February 23.
In an effort to help Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif win the confidence vote just announced by the party’s chairman Imran Khan, the NA speaker accepted the resignations of 34 PTI members and one AML member earlier this month.
On April 11 of last year, 123 PTI MNAs collectively resigned, two days after their party’s chairman was removed as prime minister following a no-confidence vote.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
