ISLAMABAD, May 19, 2017: Starting 28 minutes behind the schedule, the 12^th sitting of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly was adjourned due to lack of quorum, says Free and Fair Election Network on Friday.

Following are some key observations of 12^th sitting of Assembly’s 24^th session:

Members’ Participation

• The KP Assembly met for 46 minutes.
• The sitting started at 1528 hours against the scheduled time of 1500 hours.
• Twenty lawmakers (16%) were present at the start and 24 (19%) at the end of the sitting.
• The Deputy Speaker presided over the entire sitting.
• The Chief Minister and the Leader of the Opposition were not present.
• None of the Parliamentary leader was present.
• Two minority members attended the sitting.

Output

• The House did not consider the KP Consumer Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2017.
• The House adopted a report of the Special Committee on a Joint Call Attention Notice (CAN).

Representation and Responsiveness

• The House took up seven Starred Questions for answers during the proceedings. The lawmakers also asked four supplementary questions.
• The House did not take up two CANs included in the List of Business.

 Order and Institutionalization

• A PML-N lawmaker pointed out the quorum at 1610 hours which was found lacking on headcount. The bells were rung for two minutes; however, the quorum did not complete at recount that led to the adjournment of the sitting till Monday.

Transparency

• ‘Orders of the Day’ was available to the legislators, observers and other stakeholders.
•  The attendance of lawmakers was not available to the observers and media.

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This daily factsheet is based on direct observation of the KP Assembly proceedings conducted by United Rural Development Organization (URDO) – a member organization of FAFEN. Errors and omissions are excepted