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Bill of Rights and the Hic Electoral System:
Functional Constituencies
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some force to the criticisms made
by Wennegren, Wako and
Aguillar (TUR para 3) Article 25(6) ICCPR requires genuine peiodic elections to be held, and that
they shall be "by universal and equal suffrage". The functional constituency system is plainly inconsistent with these provisions, We would have to
rely for our defence on the resevation
25(6). (BOR, section 13)
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these points could be argued, cogently in my view, that
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electoral system,
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do so, we move outside the
reservation and therefore are
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scope
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with Article 25 (6). If we choose to