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- January 25, 2024
- Kainat Shakeel
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ISLAMABAD: Local government (LG) officials were warned of terrible consequences should they continue to help candidates during their campaigns, and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) ordered the province governments to enforce this directive. In a correspondence to election commissioners and provincial chief secretaries, the ECP said that it had witnessed elected officials and local government representatives actively endorsing candidates by supplying labor and leveraging government resources throughout their races.
“This is in opposition to the idea of giving all candidates equal opportunities and violates the code of conduct,” it continued. The ECP requested that elected representatives and LG officials stop the practices because there would be dire repercussions if they didn’t.
District monitoring teams have been instructed by the Commission to closely watch the election campaign and to take disciplinary action against any illegal activity.