ISLAMABAD: Hours after it sailed through the National Assembly, the Senate approved the controversial Elections (Second Amendment) Bill, 2024, on Tuesday.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Senator Talal Chaudhry presented the amendment bill in the upper house of parliament amid strong opposition from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senators.
The National Assembly Tuesday approved a bill proposing amendments to the Elections Act 2017 to bar lawmakers from changing their party affiliation amid strong resistance from opposition benches who termed the legislation “unconstitutional”.
Tabled by PML-N lawmaker Bilal Azhar Kiyani last month, the NA Parliamentary Affairs Committee approved the bill with the support of eight members, four members opposed it, and Shahid Akhtar, a Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) MNA, abstained from voting.
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