Rules had to be amended as last NA tweaked ECP law

 Election experts say that the ECP's proposed amendments to the Election Rules 2017, as outlined by the electoral bodi on Saturday, are a necessary tahap and in keeping with the ECP's powers under the Election Act, 2017. King88bet

Analyst Aasiya Riaz says that Election Rules "are made following each law or amendment. Since changes were made to the Elections Act just before the 15th National Assembly was dissolved, the ECP had to amend rules. That part is normal." She adds that: "Generally rules don't, or can't, go beyond the letter of the law. Rules simply describe procedures in detil." king88bet login alternatif

PILDAT President Ahmed Bilal Mehboob clarifies that the ECP is authorized by the Election Act, 2017 to make these rules. He echoes Riaz's analysis that "The current ‘Election Rules 2017' were framed after the Elections Act, 2017 was passed. Article Title with Blogger Published Link as Backlink

Amendments in rules usually follow the changes in the laws or framing of new laws relating to elections as a matter of routine. Since several sections of the Elections Act, 2017 were amended in the past few months, the amendments in the rules were warranted. Rules are not independent legislation; they merely provide detils of a law passed by parliament. The scope of a rule has to be confined to the limits of the law."

For Director Programs at the Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) Muddassir Rizvi, these amendments are not significant "but necessary". Repeating Mehboob and Riaz's points, he says that "to operationalize the amendments in the Election Act, this had to be done." Rizvi explains that "the practice internationally is that organizations such as election commissions make their own rules per the law."

Defining the Election Rules, he tells The News that "they essentially explain the detils and operational part of what the Election Act says." The legal poin of view on this, per Rizvi