ISLAMABAD, December 31, 2021: The Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) transacted most of its agenda and passed two government bills, observes Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) in its Daily Factsheet on Friday.
Following are key observations of the House proceedings during the 27th sitting of 20th session:
Members’ Participation
- The House met for two hours and 20 minutes.
- The sitting started at 11:00 am against the scheduled time of 10:00 am.
- The deputy speaker presided over the entire proceedings in the absence of speaker.
- The leaders of the House (chief minister) and the opposition did not attend the sitting.
- As many as 41 MPAs (28 percent) were present at the outset and 51 (35 percent) at the adjournment of the sitting.
- Parliamentary leader of MMAP was present.
- Three out of four minority lawmakers attended the sitting.
Output
- Moved by the Minister for labor, the House passed two government bills including the Upper Swat Development Authority Bill, 2021 and the KP (Regularization of Services of Employees of Erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas) Bill, 2021.
Representation and Responsiveness
- The House took up six out of ten starred questions while the remaining four questions were lapsed due to absence of relevant lawmakers. In addition, lawmakers asked three supplementary questions.
- Minister for labor responded to a calling attention notice (CAN) about regularizing the Community Driven Local Development (CDLP) program.
- Another CAN on the agenda was not taken up due to the absence of mover.
- A PPPP lawmaker debated an adjournment motion for ten minutes which was about adopting modern investigation techniques to trace the kidnapping cases.
Order and Institutionalization
- The House was adjourned to meet again on Monday, January 3, 2022 at 02:00 pm.
Transparency
- ‘Orders of the Day’ was available for the legislators, observers and the media.
- Attendance of the lawmakers was not available for the observers and the media.
This daily factsheet is based on direct observation of the KP Assembly proceedings conducted by the United Rural Development Organization (URDO) – a member organization of FAFEN. Errors and omissions excepted