SJB MP Bakeer Markar presents three Bills to ensure youth representation in elections

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SJB MP Imtiaz Bakeer Marker

SJB MP Imtiaz Bakeer Marker this week presented three Private Member Bills to Parliament to ensure a mandatory quota in nomination papers for youth below 35.

The amendment to the Parliamentary Elections Act and the PC Elections Act proposes that when submitting a nomination paper each political party or independent group shall ensure that not less than one-fourth of the total number of candidates to be nominated for the electoral district and not less than one fourth of the total number of candidates in the district list, shall be youth candidates.

In a Local Authorities Elections, when submitting nominations by each political party and independent group, it is proposed that not less than one fourth of the total number of candidates to be nominated for the local authority, and not less than one fourth of the total number of candidates in the district list, shall be youth candidates.