Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) has launched a campaign to solicit public support for federal framework legislation for the protection of electoral rights of voters and candidates in the provincial laws on the local government.
The campaign is aimed to encourage citizens, civil society groups and media to support the framework legislation with a focus on the need for uniformity on basic electoral principles to be incorporated by provinces in their respective local government laws.
In the first phase, FAFEN will mobilise and encourage citizens to send letters to ECP, political parties and their parliamentary leaders of all parties in parliament and provincial assemblies endorsing the FAFEN-proposed federal legislation. In addition to country-wise engagements with media and citizens, FAFEN will also utilise social media to enable citizens and candidates to raise demands for quality of local government elections and protection of their electoral rights.
Last week, FAFEN proposed to hold local government elections in phases to ease administrative burden on the ECP and ensure quality of the process. It says the ECP should be authorised by federal framework legislation to conduct local government elections under the enacted legislation by provinces that should also provide basic guidelines to provincial assemblies on constitutionally protected electoral rights of voters and candidates.-PR
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