ECP Code Violations Continued through End of Campaign Period
This update is based on interviews with 71 District Election Commissioners’ (DECs) between February 8 and March 15, 2013, about DECs’ coordination meetings with a wide range of district election stakeholders. DEC meetings with election stakeholders are essential to ensure transparency, efficiency and accountability in local election administration.
District Long-Term Observers (DLTOs) of the Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN), who are deployed across the country, conducted the interviews in 71 districts. The interviews were conducted in 26 districts in Punjab, 23 in Sindh, 13 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), five in Balochistan, three in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and one in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT).
In total, DECs reported holding 321 meetings with election stakeholders. FAFEN has classified the electoral stakeholders who met with DECs into seven groups: civil society organizations, political parties, district government officials, media, security officials, sitting Members of the National and Provincial Assemblies (MNAs/MPAs), and election observer groups.
One-third of all election stakeholder meetings hosted by DECs (130, or 40.5%) were with representatives of various political parties. One-fifth of reported DEC meetings were with civil society organizations (68, or 21.2%) and another one-fifth of stakeholder meetings were with district government officials (61, or 19.0%). One-tenth of DEC meetings were with media representatives (33, or 10.3%).
DECs in 71 districts held only 11 meetings between February 8 and March 15, 2013, with security officials (3.4%) and three meetings with election observer groups (0.9%).
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