{"id":60880,"date":"2024-02-16T17:06:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T17:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/ecp-power-to-withdraw-electoral-symbol-challenged\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T17:06:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T17:06:05","slug":"ecp-power-to-withdraw-electoral-symbol-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/ecp-power-to-withdraw-electoral-symbol-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"ECP power to withdraw electoral symbol challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>LAHORE: The powers of the ECP to withdraw the electoral sy\u00admbol of a political party has been challenged before the Lahore High Court.<\/p>\n<p>Munir Ahmad, a lawyer, filed a \u2018public interest\u2019 petition through advocate Azhar Siddique and assailed the vires of Sec\u00adtion 215 of the Elec\u00adtions Act 2017, which provides for eligibility of a party to obtain election symbol.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1806320\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>It may be recalled that PTI contested the Feb 8 elections without an electoral symbol which it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1805488\/pti-bat-tered-loses-iconic-electoral-symbol-as-sc-restores-ecp-order\">lost<\/a> after a bitter legal battle over its failure to hold intra-party elections.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner pleads that the right to contest the election under a common symbol cannot be taken away, contending that the ECP being a constitutional body is not a court or a tribunal, therefore, any power wrongly assumed by it for taking away fundamental rights is illegal in terms of Article 8.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing of the petition has been fixed for Feb 16 before Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan.<\/p>\n<p><em>Published in Dawn, February 16th, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The powers of the ECP to withdraw the electoral sy\u00admbol of a political party has been challenged before the Lahore High Court. 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