The PTI requested reserve seats in the national and provincial parliament in a plea submitted to the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Monday.
As a respondent to the petition, the ECP demanded that candidates who filed nomination papers for reserve seats and underwent scrutiny be given adjustments for such seats.
The PTI was a listed party with the authority to reserve seats, according to the party’s argument.
According to the plea, all of the candidates who applied for tickets on reserve seats were PTI members, and each of them had also filed an affidavit to that effect. The petition said that the Supreme Court alone possesses the authority to delist any party, not the ECP.
Additionally, the PTI asked the court to set a hearing for the case for today.
The process of forming a government and allocating particular seats in the provincial assemblies has begun with the official announcement of the results of the general election on February 8.
The process for forming a government and allocating reserved seats to winning political parties has also been laid down by the electoral monitor.
According to the described process, political parties that achieve success in the provincial assembly will be granted reserved seats for women and minorities.
A party will receive one reserved seat for every nine general seats in the Punjab Assembly, or one seat for women at a rate of 4.5%. A minority member of a party will receive one seat at a rate of 37.12%.
Nine seats will be set aside for minorities and 29 seats for women out of the 130 general seats in the Sindh Assembly. One seat shall be allotted for women at a rate of 4.48% and one seat for a minority group at a rate of 14.44%, in accordance with the stipulated ratio for the distribution of reserved seats.
Out of the 145 seats in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly, 115 are general seats. A political party can form a government by gaining 73 seats.
One minority seat will be allotted for every 29 general seats in the K-P Assembly, with one reserved seat going to women based on a ratio of 4.42%.
Every political party in the Balochistan Assembly will receive one minority seat for every 17 general seats as well as one seat for women at a rate of 4.63%.
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