The Election Commission of Pakistan has sought the power to monitor intra-party elections of political parties by recommending amendments to the electoral laws and the power to recommend intra-party elections of political parties by recommending amendments to Section 208 of the Election Act 2017.
This has been delayed a lot, this authority should have been given when the decision was made to register political parties with the Election Commission. To participate in the elections, every political party registers itself with the Election Commission, for which there is a condition of intra-party elections, but the authority to conduct intra-party elections and monitor them lies with the political parties, who mostly sit in closed rooms and distribute positions and become entitled to get election symbols by sending a list of office bearers to the Election Commission.
Jamaat-e-Islami is the only political party in Pakistan, in which, according to its own procedure, opinions are sought from party officials across the country for the Ameer of the party at a fixed time and the officials are given the names of some people, apart from them, the voter has the option to vote for anyone else. In Jamaat-e-Islami, no one presents himself as a candidate, but the party nominates its Ameer candidate based on performance and those who have the right to vote for the Ameer elections.
They freely use their votes and send their decision to the top, and the party announces the victory of the person who receives the most votes according to its procedure, which is not objected to. Everyone accepts the decision, and the new Amir takes the oath, decides on the remaining officials according to the procedure, and announces it, due to which there has never been a dispute over any Amir.
To some extent, elections are held in JUI without external supervision, Maulana Fazlur Rehman has been elected as the leader unopposed for many years. Raqim had the opportunity to watch the elections of JUI Central District Karachi recently, which were held after the Isha prayers in a large mosque in Dastgir FB area, in which undoubtedly thousands of workers had come to vote and the four large doors inside the mosque were closed and one door was kept open in the congregation hall of the mosque. Outside, in the large courtyard of the mosque, the workers who had the right to vote were given voting slips by giving their names on the list and after seeing the slip, they were allowed to enter the congregation hall of the mosque.
After the balloting process was completed, the entrance gate was closed and hundreds of workers outside were watching the voting through five large glass doors. The election officials were monitoring the transparent voting and announced the successful candidates after the voting was completed.
In every major party, the General Council or Central Executive Committee meeting is held for show and under the scheduled program, the party leader has been elected unopposed as usual and the rest of the officials of the leader's choice are also mostly elected unopposed or, if necessary, an intra-party election is announced and a written notification is given to the Election Commission. However, the Election Commission does not have the authority to supervise the election process; it accepts the intra-party election.
For the first time, PTI held intra-party elections democratically under the leadership of its impartial leader Justice (retd) Wajihuddin, in which he disqualified some party leaders based on facts. However, the founder PTI itself did not accept Justice Wajihuddin's decision because the disqualified leaders were the founder's favorites and were big donors to the party, whom the founder wanted to keep in positions at all costs. Therefore, Justice Wajihuddin lost heart and left the party and was made the founder's favorite unopposed official. After this first election, PTI repented of holding democratic elections again.
Before the 2024 elections, the founding chairman was in jail and the Election Commission had announced that it would not give the PTI an election symbol for not holding intra-party elections. Under compulsion, so-called officials were elected in a suburb of Peshawar who were unknown to anyone in the party, but according to the wishes of the founding chairman, new so-called officials were elected unopposed. Founding members of the party like Akbar S. Babar objected to this, and the Election Commission also did not recognize the controversial intra-party elections of PTI and did not give the election symbol, which was also ratified by the Supreme Court, which was a legal decision, but the PTI did not recognize it or hold re-elections, but their politics are still going on. Why is the Election Commission not recognizing our officials?
Every party holds such so-called elections, and that is why the Election Commission is seeking authority to hold intra-party elections under its supervision so that elections can be held under its supervision that are not controversial but fair.
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