Elections in Pakistan: the winner Imran Khan strikes the former ruling party in his center | News from the world

Tehreek-e-Insaf Party (PTI) of former international cricketer Imran Khan managed to spread across the country, official results of the Pakistani general election, in an overwhelming victory tainted allegations of military interference in polls With more than 95% of votes counted, more than a day after the deadline, the ITP won 110 seats in the National Assembly, while the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) only 63.

Khan will still have to form a coalition to become prime minister, but a single party that takes seats across the country – in the north, south and Punjab – is rare in Pakistani politics.

PTI can implement its political program also received a significant boost from its strong performance in state-level elections.

In addition to forming the federal government, the PTI captured 118 seats in the provincial badembly of Punjab, the largest and richest province, this means that she has a good chance of getting a better job. Expel the PML-N from the state government, a bastion that its leaders, even if they envisioned defeat, had desperately sought to protect.

The Pakistan Election Commission (ECP) turnout dropped to 52 percent, a two-point drop from 2013, as predicted by a low-energy campaign beset by allegations that the government was not able to meet the demands of the polls. Army sought to impede PML-N

. The founder of the PML-N, Nawaz Sharif, told the family of the prison cell where he is serving a 10-year prison sentence for being sentenced to a 10-year prison term. corruption that he considered "stolen".

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)

Also known as the Justice Party, it is headed by former cricketer Imran Khan, and has had some success at the provincial level, but has never been able to convert to national power. Khan has been accused of both lacking a coherent political philosophy and sympathizing with extremists. He described the Taliban's fight in Afghanistan as a holy war and accused the "liberals" who support the NATO war against the group to be "bloodthirsty".

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz

Hoping to regain control of parliament, even though its leader, Nawaz Sharif, is in prison for corruption. Judged and sentenced in absentia, he returned home this month to serve his sentence, hoping to revitalize the campaign before the elections.

Now led by his brother Shahbaz, the party focuses on its economic success and its promises of energy. infrastructure investments from China. However, efforts to increase tax revenues have failed

Pakistan People's Party (PPP)

Led by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, son of former badbadinated Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The party lost ground after Benazir's death in 2007, but the family name still carries a lot of weight. The third-generation leader seems to be playing a long game, rebuilding his support in his heart by keeping an eye on future elections. If successful in this vote, the PPP could potentially serve as a junior partner in a coalition.

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GenAsif Ghafoor, the spokesman for the army, drew criticism after tweeting "You honor who you want and humble yourself whoever you want," a verse from the Quran that has been accepted in some circles as confirmation of the support of the army in Khan.

The net of official results has sparked surprises. The best leaders of the PML-N scored below expectations. The former Prime Minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, who badumed the role after Sharif's ouster, lost both constituencies that he disputed.

The former finance minister, Miftah Ismail, posted on Twitter that he was "looking for work" after his departure. own defeat. Shahbaz Sharif, Nawaz's brother and new party leader, broke into parliament after losing three of the four seats he contested.

Although Tehreek-e-Labbaik, a new far-right Islamist party dedicated to the murders of blasphemers, winning national seats, its strong second place in many contests has raised fears that it will affect the future of Pakistani politics.

The party claimed 10 percent of the vote in the Punjab province, 110 million from the PML-N vote bank, and won two seats in the provincial government of Sindh.

However, the Liberals were cheered by a PTI candidate who defeated Siraj-ul-Haq, who controls the Haqqania Madrasa that educated many Taliban leaders. 19659002] Analyst Umair Javed told the Guardian that the scale of Khan's victory across the country made the PTI a rare "truly national party". He won a two-thirds majority in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the first since 1951, while at the other end of Pakistan, in the economic capital of southern Karachi, the party far exceeded expectations in winning half of the seats

. According to Javed, a former PML-N cabinet minister, Khawaja Saad Rafique, asked that his defeat be notified to Imran Khan, in the Punjab capital, Lahore. . He said that the president of the polling station had "rejected" many votes.

The PML-N will hold a conference of opposition leaders in Islamabad on Friday to discuss their response after stating that the vote was rigged – the workers who monitor the count – evicted from the polls by security guards . At a party meeting on Thursday, the PML-N decided not to boycott parliament.