Pakistan: Election results contested, party demands re-election

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia – The main party rejects the results Pakistan elections won by cricket star Imran Khan . The party also launched a protest calling for reelection. This protest was launched after foreign observers alleged fraud in the electoral process.

The announcement of the vote count in Pakistan itself is a day late compared to the calendar. According to calculations, Imran Khan was elected president by presenting most of the votes. Nevertheless, Khan needed a coalition if he wanted to form a government

Protests by the All-Party Conference (APC) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). "We believe that there was a robbery," said Maulana Fazalur Rehman, leader of the religious party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F), to the press on Friday night

. "We will make a reelection move There will be protests … We will not allow democracy to be taken hostage by the state," he said. The country in question is the military power that has been in power in the country.

PML-N states that the number of votes is military engineering. They also called for taking steps to not take an oath as a member of parliament.

"I totally agree with that, the worst kind of deviation was made, which has never happened before," party leader Shahbaz Sharif

said.
However, Sharif said that he was to consult with his party leaders about the APC's decision not to swear an oath to deputies.

Unlike APC, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) won the third highest number of votes. The boycott of the APC

At a press conference, PPP Bilawal's president, Bhutto Zardari, said that his party had also rejected the election results. Nevertheless, he promised to try to convince other parties to participate in the parliamentary process

Many critics

Elections in Pakistan have been criticized by observers, the Union European Union and the United States. They commented that there were many statements saying that the ruling army was trying to recover power by supporting Khan. They even commented on the Pakistani elections as the dirtiest vote.

Nevertheless, Khan's victory through the Tehreek-e-Insaf Party in Pakistan is a new story. Because usually, the ruling party in Pakistan is still detained by the PML-N or the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). The power of both was interrupted by the presence of the military government in Pakistan.

Initially, the voting process was conceived as a transitional step towards a democratic country. It was not long enough in the Muslim country that was long ruled by a strong army.

But the election was marked by violence and allegations of military intervention in the months leading up to the vote. Khan is considered one who makes the most of this series of acts of violence. (ex)