Thread by @DrOsamaSiddique

What the #SupremeCourt Order fatally doesn’t appear 2 account for is the following: (1) Political parties run as fiefdoms/personality cults in Pakistan. What if the party head does egregious things or becomes an erratic & dangerous egomaniac or otherwise 1/5 #COAS #HamzaShahbaz

undermines democratic principles/norms or commits other outrages? (2) What if he then becomes entrenched because of the initial calculus of seats? Is a member then bound to not dissent on essentially national & larger than party considerations? An additional question is that 2/5

what’s the point of any voting at all? Everything is predetermined by electoral outcomes as to numbers in assembly. Members should then just sign over to party their votes to be used as it wishes. VONC becomes ineffectual except if coalition partners break off. While clamping 3/5

down on proven horse trading through imposition of cost of desertion - deseating or worse - wouldn’t it have been better to retain room for conscientious independent voting when being egregiously locked in by party policy/party leaders’ whims, that would in turn lead to 4/5

sub-optimal supra/larger than party/party leader outcomes at national level? By going to other extreme SC bench maj diminishing members to the extent that party (which really means party leader) can become an absolute despot & use its captive audience members as mere pawns. 5/5

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