The Pakistani election delayed, cricket legend at the top

To the provisional result of the elections in Pakistan, the center-right party of Imran Khan is at the top. At least five parties say the elections were unfair. Due to technical problems, the final result has been delayed.

With thirty percent of the votes counted, it seems good for the party of the national cricket legend Khan. Its PTI party is provisionally on 113 of the 272 seats. Its main opponent, the Muslim League PML-N of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has 66 seats. Sharif said that he would not accept the result.

Despite the advantage of PTI, it is far from certain that Khan's party will get the majority. To win alone, the winner needs at least 137 seats.

The votes are counted by hand. According to the Pakistan Election Commission, this is due to technical problems with the electronic counting system. The final results are therefore delayed, we do not know how long

Manipulation

Sharif's Muslim League and four other parties talk about manipulation. "This counting of the votes would have taken place behind closed doors, without the observers of the party being there," says correspondent Aletta André in With The Eye On Tomorrow on NPO Radio 1. "There is also the complaints that voters were arrested at certain polling stations. "

More than thirty people lost their lives on election day. Most of it by an attack on a polling station in the western city of Quetta. The terrorist organization IS claimed responsibility for this attack. In Punjab province, there was a confrontation between supporters of two rival political parties

Influence of the Army

Pakistan has 105 million voters. According to the Reuters news agency, 371,000 soldiers were deployed to keep order in polling stations, much more than in previous elections in 2013. The military has traditionally held a lot of power in Pakistan and has regularly made a coup d'etat.

The second time in the 71 years of the country's existence is that a government elected by the people transfers power to another civilian government

Khan is supported by the army according to his opponents. He always denied that himself. Before Khan entered politics, he was the main player in the national cricket team who became the world champion in 1992.