ISLAMABAD, June 18, 2021: The Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Friday witnessed the presentation of annual budget for the financial Year 2021-2022 and the supplementary Budget for the financial year 2020-2021, observes Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) in its Daily Factsheet.

Following are key observations of the proceedings during first sitting of the 19th session:

Members’ Participation

• The Assembly met for two hours.
• The sitting started at 03:20 pm against the scheduled time of 02:000 pm.
• The speaker presided over the entire sitting while the deputy speaker was also present.
• The leaders of the House and the opposition attended the entire sitting.
• One hundred legislators (69 percent) were present at the outset and 120 (83 percent) at the adjournment of the sitting.
• The parliamentary leaders of PML-N, PPPP, ANP, BAP, PML-Q and MMAP attended the proceedings.
• All the three minority lawmakers attended the sitting.

Output

• Moved by the Minister for Finance, the House witnessed the introduction of the KP Finance Bill, 2021.
• Finance Minister presented the annual budget for the financial year 2021-2022 and the supplementary budget for the financial year 2020-2021 in the House.

Order and Institutionalization

• The House was adjourned to meet again on Monday, June 21, 2021 at 10:00 am.

Transparency

• ‘Orders of the Day’ is available for the legislators, observers and the media.
• Attendance of the lawmakers is 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 are excepted