Month: October 2021

Islamabad, October 01, 2021 (PPI-OT):The Punjab Assembly was prorogued sine die on Friday amidst a lack of quorum, observes Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) in its Daily Factsheet.

Following are key observations of the House proceedings during the sixth and last sitting of 35th session:

Members’ Participation

The House met for 44 minutes.

The sitting started at 11:05 am against the scheduled time of 09:00 am.

A member of panel of chairpersons presided over the entire proceedings in the absence of speaker and deputy speaker.

The leaders of the House (Chief Minister) and the opposition did not attend the sitting.

As many as 32 MPAs (nine percent) were present at the outset and 35 (ten percent) at the adjournment of the sitting.

The parliamentary leader of PPPP attended the proceedings.

One out of eight minority lawmakers attended the sitting.

Representation and Responsiveness

The chair deferred and disposed of one question each during the question hour while the remaining 19 starred questions were not taken up during the proceedings.

Order and Institutionalization

Three lawmakers spoke on points of order for 15 minutes regarding hike in price of petroleum products. Later, a PPPP lawmaker also staged token walkout on the same issue.

A PML-N lawmaker pointed out the quorum at 11:27 am following which the Chair ordered the bells to be rung for five minutes. The quorum was found incomplete upon counting and the proceedings remained suspended for 16 minutes. On resumption of the proceedings at 11:48 am, the quorum was incomplete and the Chair announced to prorogue the session.

Transparency

‘Orders of the Day’ was available on Assembly’s website.

Information on Members’ attendance is available on Assembly’s website.

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Islamabad, October 01, 2021 (PPI-OT):The National Assembly did not take up agenda on Friday and was prorogued after walkout of the opposition against hike in prices of petroleum products, observes Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) in Daily Factsheet.

Following are key observations of the proceedings during 9th sitting of the 36th session:

Members’ Participation

The National Assembly met for 38 minutes.

The sitting started at 11:29 am against the scheduled time of 11:00 am.

The deputy speaker presided over the entire sitting in the absence of speaker.

The leaders of the house (Prime Minister) and the opposition did not attend the sitting.

As many as 76 (22 percent) lawmakers were present at the outset and 49 (14 percent) at the adjournment of the sitting.

Four minority lawmakers were present.

Output

The House did not consider eight reports of standing committees on as many legislative proposals.

Representation and Responsiveness

The House did not consider three motions for consideration of as many bills in the joint sitting of the Parliament.

Two calling attention notices on the agenda also remained unaddressed while a motion of thanks to President was not discussed.

The House took up three starred questions while the lawmakers asked five supplementary questions.

Order and Institutionalization

Three lawmakers including Minister of state for parliamentary affairs spoke on points of order for four minutes.

The opposition announced walkout from the House against hike in prices of petroleum products at 12:06 pm following which the Chair announced to prorogue the session.

Transparency

‘Orders of the Day’ was available to legislators, observers and public.

Attendance of lawmakers was available to media and observers.

For more information, contact:
Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN)
FAFEN Representative
FAFEN Secretariat 224, Margalla Road F-10/3 – Islamabad
Tel: +92-51-2211026
Fax: +92-51-2211047
Cell: +92-321-5017355, +92-301-8549188
Email: media@fafen.org
URL: www.fafen.org