The President of the Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP), Asif Ali Zardari, vetoed his party’s steadfast support for holding elections within 90 days on Saturday.
It was vital to complete the delimitation exercise before conducting elections, according to the former president of Pakistan.
The PPP leader insisted in a statement that following a new and updated census, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is required to redrew the borders of all seats. He stated, “My party has great faith in the chief election commissioner and other ECP members. The ECP will conduct elections in accordance with the Constitution.”
The interim administration and the courts had earlier been petitioned by Bilawal and the PPP leadership to hold elections within 90 days. But on Friday, Bilawal recommended that if it couldn’t be completed within the 90-day constitutional window, the process should be extended to 120 days.
Unlike the PPP, the PMLN leadership seems to be okay with elections taking place in January or February of the following year.
Asif, on the other hand, spoke to the critical issue of Pakistan’s faltering economy.
He asserted that the nation and its economy came first, and urged everyone to “put the economy above politics as it is the imperative of the hour.”
The former PMLN-led government amended the ECP Act of 2017 to expand the scope of the caretaker administration’s authority just before its tenure came to an end by dissolving the National Assembly three days before it could finish a five-year term.
The caretaker administration has been given authority to make crucial decisions about current bilateral or multilateral agreements through the revision to Section 230 of the ECP statute.
