By Sunday, when nomination papers were due, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had received an unprecedented 28,626 nomination papers from prospective candidates around the nation.
ECP Received Record Nomination Papers for General Elections 2024
According to the ECP data, 7,713 prospective candidates have filed their nomination papers for the general National Assembly seat and 18,546 for the general seats in each of the four provincial assemblies.
According to the data, 471 women and 7,242 males submitted candidacy papers for general National Assembly seats.
On the other hand, 17,744 men and 802 women filed for the general election, scheduled for February 8, 2024, for four provincial assemblies.
ECP began reviewing the nominations on Monday; on Saturday, December 30, 2023, the process would be concluded.
Acceptance and Rejection of Nomination Papers Filing Schedule
The previously published schedule states that appeals against the acceptance or rejection of nomination papers may file beginning on January 3, 2024, and that judgments about these appeals will render by January 10.
On January 11, the election commission will release the list of candidates. Up to January 12, or before the ECP assigns an electoral symbol on January 13, candidates would have the opportunity to withdraw.
ECP Spokesman Haroon Shinwari clarified on Monday that defaulting candidates should contact the relevant returning officer between December 25 and December 30, 2023, while scrutiny of nomination papers.
The ECP emphasized that all federal and local government entities should get in touch with the returning officers as once and that it is important to make sure that defaulters’ debts are recovered.
Section 62 of the Act
According to Section 62 of the Act, which relates to scrutiny, any voter of a constituency may file objections to the candidature of a candidate of that constituency, who has nominated or whose name has included in the party list, submitted by a political party for election to an assembly before the returning officer within the period, specified by the commission for scrutiny of nomination papers of candidates contesting election to an assembly.
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