{"id":22812,"date":"2024-01-15T12:05:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=22812"},"modified":"2024-01-15T12:05:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T07:05:40","slug":"ecp-informs-the-senate-that-elections-cannot-be-postponed-in-order-to-address-poll-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/ecp-informs-the-senate-that-elections-cannot-be-postponed-in-order-to-address-poll-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"ECP informs the Senate that elections cannot be postponed in order to address poll delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The electoral authority claims to have committed to holding elections on February 8, 2024, before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD: The Senate resolution requesting a postponement of the polls on February 8 was denied by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), which asserted that all preparations had already been made and that it would not be &#8220;advisable&#8221; to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The ECP statement is a reaction to the Senate&#8217;s resolution from January 5, which was introduced by Senator Dilawar Khan and approved by the parliament despite low attendance.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/election-2024-more-than-half-of-the-polling-stations-in-rawalpindi-were-deemed-sensitive.html\">Election 2024: More than half of the polling stations in Rawalpindi were deemed &amp;#8220;sensitive&amp;#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The resolution had given two grounds for postponing the polls: the deteriorating security situation and the severe weather in highland areas.<\/p>\n<p>The ECP said in a statement today that it discussed the resolution during the meeting and noted that directives had been given to caretaker governments to &#8220;beef up security matrix and provide congenial environment to the electorate&#8221; in order to ensure peaceful elections.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the electoral authority stated that it promised to hold elections on February 8, 2024, and that it filed this pledge with the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ecp-has-urged-political-parties-to-ensure-a-5-per-cent-representation-of-women.html\">ECP has urged political parties to ensure a 5% representation of Women<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a same vein, the ECP stated that it would not be inappropriate to bring up the fact that previous general elections and municipal elections were conducted during the winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The electoral authority claims to have committed to holding elections on February 8, 2024, before the Supreme Court. ISLAMABAD: The Senate resolution requesting a postponement of the polls on February 8 was denied by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), which asserted that all preparations had already been made and that it would not be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,2,147],"tags":[491,10447,148],"class_list":["post-22812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-election-commission-of-pakistan","tag-senate","tag-ecp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}