بلدیاتی انتخابات | local government election punjab politics

We think Chances are that the provincial government has amended the act to reduce the number of village and neighbourhood councils in order to make the entire exercise of conducting elections less cumbersome. Yet the secrecy with which the ordinance was issued just days after the government agreed to the ECP plan for holding elections before September is sufficient to raise doubts regarding its strategy for the restoration of local democracy in Punjab in the near future. It is a fact that the ruling PTI, which had promised to give the province a strong LG system to strengthen democracy at the lowest tier, has consistently delayed elections ever since it rolled back the previously PML-N-dominated local institutions. To counter criticism, the administration has come up with weak arguments, sometimes blaming the ECP for the delay. But people are aware that the PTI’s falling popularity graph — a result of the poor performance of the provincial administration that hasn’t delivered on electoral promises, internal r