International organizations are concerned that Pakistan is going to have a big investment in September. The World Bank is asking who will sign the big deals? In view of these issues, it is very important to strengthen the caretaker government.
Ruling, senior leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, and Member of National Assembly, Ayaz Sadiq very happily put this point before the Parliament.
He was addressing a joint session of Parliament on Wednesday regarding the amendment of the Election Act. In this joint session, some amendments to the Election Act, 2017 have been passed by majority vote and the new proposed law has been named as the Elections (Amendment) Bill, 2023.
One thing that was very clear during Wednesday’s session was that many MPs appeared to be confused about what the controversial new amendment to empower the caretaker government actually was. I also did during my speeches.
When the process of clause-by-clause approval of the proposed bill was going on, the Minister of Law and Justice Azam Nazir Tarar tried to move forward several times by quickly reading a few amendments, but the senators of Jamaat-e-Islami stood in the way of this ‘fast pace’ and he The law minister continued to request clarification.
However, shortly after the session began and after the opening speeches of the members, it became clear that the main bone of contention between the ruling Muslim League ally and the opposition parties is over the proposed amendments to Section 230 of the Election Act.
Section 230 defines the powers of the caretaker government and states what kind of decisions the caretaker government can take and what decisions it is not empowered to take. And now the PML-N government wants to give additional authority to the caretaker government through some amendments, which is justified by the fact that in September Pakistan has to fulfill some international agreements, including privatization, public-private partnership and other countries. Includes contracts with
The main objection raised to Section 230 was that according to the law the function of the caretaker government was merely to run the day-to-day affairs until a newly elected government came in and to bring the caretaker government on par with an elected government by giving it additional powers. It is tantamount to ‘assassination of the Constitution’.
Many members also expressed concern in their speeches that the amendment to empower the caretaker government was “actually meant to please the IMF.”
During the process of approving the bill, at one point, a few members of parliament got up and started going out, on which Prime Minister Nazir Tarar had to stop the process of reading the bill and he said, “Mr. Speaker, if it will happen like this, it will It is not possible for the proceedings to go ahead.’But the members who were walking out, who were understood to be walking out, actually told me that the proceedings had ended and the bill had been passed, while now in section 54 of the Election Act. Only 28 verses were recited.
