WE have witnessed dozens of re-elections on different provincial and national seats in the last two years after the winners were declared ineligible for having fake degrees, hiding assets, having a dual nationality.

A country which is already dependent on foreign aid and is miserably short of money can’t afford huge sums of money to be spent on re-elections so frequently.

In my opinion, instead of spending the taxpayers’ money in this manner; the runner-up in the constituency should be automatically declared the winner.

We are paying taxes out of our hard-earned money for a better Pakistan and not for a hide and seek game of re-elections at short intervals.

Ajmal Abbasi

Ayubia

Published in Dawn, July 4th, 2015

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