Revamping the Electoral System of Pakistan

[dooost]

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After analyzing several political talk-shows about electoral system and the ground realities of the ruling parties and opposition parties that how they got elected, I found a big room for improvement and came up with a suggestion for Election Commission and Supreme Court of Pakistan to think about improving and changing this process once and for all. This is a need of time, we want to revamp this system on emergency basis, most probably for next general election. We as a Pakistani nation cannot afford another election where fate of 180 Million Pakistanis are written by few Thugs and Illiterates who do not even represent 20% of Pakistani population.

Let me put up here some statistics about last general elections, the total population of Pakistan according to official census clock is 180,324,013 and the people who voted in last general elections were total 34,665,978 which is not even 20% of the total population. Therefore what we have today is pure representation of less than 20% of our total population sitting in parliament and playing with the lives of 180 Million.

All elections held in the past were not very different from the last election held in 2008. That is why we always got a big lot of corrupt law makers and they continuously gave us the ever-lasting fruits of Load-Shedding, Poverty, Water Crisis, Ethnic Crimes, Genocides, Extortion and Kidnapping, you name a crime and we will find that in our society.

Interesting thing to point is that our 70% of the population lives in rural and remote areas and the population here is mostly illiterate where votes are polled on family, party, ethnic basis and most of the time with force. So if we apply same statistics on the vote polled in last election then out of 34,665,978 votes 70% were polled by Illiterate and uneducated voters, who don't know the ground realities and who never ever got in a position to raise voices against the person they voted.

Using common sense, and after assessing the ground realities, I would suggest that popular votes should not be polled by people who don't know the reality and power of their votes, this is a task that should be done by a person who is free as in freedom to think, and is well educated and qualified to know what it means to vote.

Following are the suggested prerequisite for Candidate contesting general Elections and prerequisite for a voter.

Prerequisite and Restrictions for Candidature

• The person who is going to contest a poll for general election should have at least 16 years of education, should have attained at least 70% or above passing marks, this is very important, there is a huge difference if we compare a person who got 16 years of education with passing marks 40% and the one who passed it with 70% and above.
  
• The person who is candidature for a general election should be a tax payer, have valid National Tax Number (NTN), showing that what he had earned, so that people can easily compare after 5 years how much he had grabbed.
  
• The remuneration package and facilities should be very low, so that person contesting a poll should have a clear picture that he is not going to have a smooth/leisure ride in terms of earning after getting elected, this will help in a long run, only person who's motive is only social service will enter in this field. We don't want people to get elected to earn money out of this field, should be pure people service and highly accountable.

Prerequisite and Restrictions for Voters

• The person who is going to vote aged above 18 years and below 22 years should have done at least and at minimum 12 years of education, we as an overseas Pakistani and Educated Pakistani do not want illiterate people to vote and decide the fate of our country.
  
• The person who is going to vote and is above 22 years of age, must have to be a tax payer with valid National Tax Number (NTN). Person who is paying taxes will never vote for a person who loots and utilize his/her tax money on personal gains.

source: http://qandeelaslam.com/blogs/elect...ing-electoral-system-pakistan-urgently-needed

 

[modern.fakir]

You make some good points but its not feasible. In the present scenario where fake degree holders rule the roost, you think they will approve a voter with a 70% pass in education. NEVER. However what you can do is this.

First thing to do is to DISBAND these political parties because all they are doing is DIVIDING people ! corruption is another story !

Get the Election Commission to select a committee of the most highly educated and honest pakistanis and ask them to select 5 - 6 Good Candidates based on what our constitution says, for example they should be Honest, a good muslim, highly educated, have no record of corruption etc. Imran Khan, Abdul Qadeer Khan and many such names can be selected, who are proven patriotic people.

Then ask the people to vote on any one of these candidates. My friend whichever candidate gets voted in ...he will be the best for Pakistan because you are selecting from the cream. Bad voters list, uneducated populace...even rigging will not matter because the end result will only be good !

 

[Shareef]

Why have elections at all. why not select public representatives through competitive examinations on the pattern of the CSS examinations. In that way we will get the cream of the nation as our public representatives and the country will progress in leaps and bounds.

 

[dooost]

Every thing revolves around people who are voters and if they are well educated they will never ever vote for a corrupt. So we know the root cause so why not squeez the voter list and include only educated voters.

Some one have to take this to the next level, we have all the system in place only we want this system to work properly