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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 ITP captured 118 seats at the provincial assembly of Punjab, the largest and richest province, which means that it has a good chance of Expel the PML-N from the state government. The Pakistan Election Commission (ECP) said the voter turnout dropped to 52 percent, down two points from 2013, as could be expected as a result of a low voter turnout. rate of participation. In a televised victory speech on Thursday, Khan struck a unifying tone, promising to raise the poor and allow the rigging investigations to be investigated. 19659002] The founder of the PML-N, Nawaz Sharif, told the family of the cell where he is serving a ten-year prison sentence for corruption that he regards as "stolen".
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 Qur'an 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 assumed 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% of the vote in Punjab province, 110 million strong from the PML-N vote bank, and won two seats in the provincial government of Sindh
The Liberals were applauded when a PTI candidate defeated Siraj-ul-Haq, who controls the Haqqania Madrasa that educated many Taliban leaders.
Analyst Umair Javed told the Guardian that the scale of Khan's victory across the country makes 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.
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