LAHORE: A day after Prime Minister Imran Khan announced going to the apex court to hold the Senate elections ahead of schedule through show of hands, PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz on Thursday declared that the opposition would not let this wish of the ‘selected’ fulfilled and requested the institutions not to accept his ‘unconstitutional’ demands. The opposition says since Imran Khan has lost control over his party lawmakers, he rushes to seek a ‘show of hands’ process in the Senate polls to ensure that none of them could defect.
The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), an alliance of 11 opposition parties, has also announced seeking legal remedies to stop the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government from going ahead with its proposed plan with regard to the Senate elections.
Addressing PM Khan at a presser at her Jati Umra residence here on Thursday, Maryam Nawaz said: “You had used [intelligence] agencies to manipulate the election [no-confidence motion by the opposition] against the Senate chairman [Sadiq Sanjrani]. Now when your government has been weakened…you realised the importance of show of hands. Why are you making the Supreme Court controversial and dragging it in politics?” She said the government could not bring ordinance to change the schedule and method of the Senate elections.
PDM president Maulana Fazlur Rehman also declared that the government could not change the Senate election method through presidential ordinance. “Only parliament can bring about an amendment in this respect and the Supreme Court can have its interpretation,” Maryam Nawaz said.Similarly, she said the Election Commission of Pakistan had its own constitutional head, but the ‘fake’ premier was undermining his authority. “After becoming the head of FIA, NAB and agencies, now Imran Khan has become the head of ECP by himself.
Source: dawn.com
