Senate Approved eliminating the graduation condition
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 9:24 am
ISLAMABAD Pakistan: Senate unanimously approved ‘Election Rules Amendment Bill 2009,’ eliminating the graduation condition and paving way for people with limited formal education to contest general elections. The graduation condition for contesting elections was introduced in 2002 by the then president General Pervez Musharraf, had badly disappointed the politicians, particularly the major political parties as a large number of their candidates were below graduation rather matriculates.
The bill was passed in pursuance of the Supreme Court’s judgement dated April 21, 2008 in which the apex court had declared as null and void the provision of Article 8A of the conduct of General Election Order, 2002 (Chief Executive Order No 7 of (2002) and clause (cc) of sub-section (1) of section 99 of the Representation of the people Act, 1976 on account of their being inconsistent with Articles 17 and 25 of the Constitution.
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