The Supreme Court denied the electoral Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) request for a stay order in the electoral tribunals case on Thursday, prompting Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa to label the presidential ordinance an insult to the legislature.
The top judge stated, “[Presidential] ordinance is an insult to the parliament when it has already made a law [on an issue],” in response to ECP’s appeal against the Lahore High Court (LHC)’s creation of electoral tribunals.
The matter has been referred to the three-member SC committee for the formation of a larger bench after it was heard by a two-member bench made up of the CJP and Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan.
ECP appealed the May 29 ruling from the LHC to the Supreme Court under Article 185(3) of the Constitution.