Pakistan Election Outcomes 2024: Shehbaz Sharif’s designation as future prime minister of Pakistan hangs in stability after an try to declare the outcomes of the February 8 elections as null and void.
Pakistan’s Supreme Courtroom on Monday (Feb 19) is scheduled to listen to a petition looking for to declare the just lately held normal elections as null and void resulting from stories of ballot rigging and deliberate delay in saying the outcomes by Pakistan’s election fee.
The petition can be heard by a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa.
The petition to declare the outcomes of the February 8 polls null and void and get elections re-conducted inside 30 days below the supervision and oversight of the judiciary, The Categorical Tribune newspaper reported.
Who’s the petitioner?
In accordance with the report, the petitioner is a citizen named Ali Khan and he additionally has made the Election Fee of Pakistan (ECP) and the federal authorities as respondents within the case.
“The petitioner seeks the apex courtroom to order contemporary elections inside 30 days. The plea seeks normal elections below the supervision and oversight of the judiciary to make sure equity, transparency and accountability,” stated the report.
Moreover, the petition additionally seeks a keep order on the formation of the brand new authorities until the case is resolved.
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The Feb 8 normal elections in Pakistan gave majority to not one of the events.
Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) supported unbiased candidates secured 92 seats, whereas Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) and the Pakistan Peoples Celebration (PPP) secured 75 and 54 seats respectively.
The PML-N and the PPP are attempting to type a authorities with former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif rising as the subsequent prime minister.
The PTI has propped up Umar Ayub Khan, the get together secretary normal and the grandson of former navy dictator Ayub Khan, because the prime ministerial candidate.
The petition looking for annulment of the polls got here as a number of political events together with the PTI, the PPP, the Jamaat-e-Islami, and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) have levelled allegations of rigging within the normal elections.
The ultimate outcomes of the polls had been introduced after a rare delay, elevating doubts over elections’ transparency.
Pakistan has additionally seen protests throughout the nation by a number of events who alleged ballot rigging. Khan’s PTI has known as for nationwide peaceable protests over the weekend.
(With inputs from the businesses)
