ISLAMABAD, June 27, 2019: The Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) started debate on the Supplementary Budget 2018-19 on Wednesday, observes Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) in its Daily Factsheet.

Following are key observations of the proceedings during seventh sitting of the seventh session:

Members’ Participation

• The Assembly met for three hours and 36 minutes.
• The sitting started at 1430 hours against the scheduled time of 1400 hours.
• The Deputy Speaker presided over the entire sitting in the absence of Speaker.
• The Leaders of the House and the Opposition did not attend the proceedings.
• Sixty-five legislators (52%) were present at the outset and 50 (40%) at the adjournment of the sitting.
• The parliamentary leaders of PML, PPPP, MMAP and ANP attended the proceedings.
• All three minority lawmakers attended the sitting.

Representation and Responsiveness

• A total of 20 lawmakers participated in the Supplementary Budget Debate for three hours and 25 minutes.

Order and Institutionalization

• An MMAP lawmaker staged a walkout from the proceedings for eight minutes against non-allocation of budget for his constituency.
•  The House was adjourned to meet again on June 28, 2019 (Friday) at 1000 hours.

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.
  

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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.