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Pakistan woke up Thursday in chaos the election, the outgoing government party denouncing "blatant frauds" and rejecting, even before his announcement, the partial results of the legislative, which suggest a victory of the former cricketer Imran Khan.
late. According to local media, less than half of the votes were counted about 13 hours after the end of the vote.
The Pakistan Election Commission (CEP) attributed this slowness to the technical problems associated with the use of a new electoral system.
"These elections are not tainted […] They are fair and transparent to 100%", said its director, Sardar Muhammad Raza, at a press conference, the third of the CEP in this election night surrealist.
But delays fueled suspicions of fraud. On Wednesday night, the Muslim League of Pakistan-Nawaz (PML-N), in power for five years, announced that it was rejecting "the results in their entirety […] because of overt and massive irregularities. "
"The results were counted without the presence of our electoral agents," he added.
Its leader, Shahbaz Sharif, brother of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, currently imprisoned for corruption, had denounced at a press conference "blatant frauds everyone started crying."
He then warned on Twitter that "the results based on a massive settlement will cause irreparable damage to the country".
Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, leader of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP, ruling between 2008 and 2013), abounded in this regard, describing the development of "unforgivable and scandalous" elections
. they complain that our election officials have been expelled from polling stations across the country, "tweeted the son of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated in 2007.
Projections of all televisions gave Thursday the legislative elections in Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party of cricket star Imran Khan, with a minimum of 100. To form a government, a majority of 137 deputies is needed.
Neither Imran Khan nor the army, suspected of having sustained him with all kinds of maneuvers in recent months, have commented on the situation for the time being
. one of the "dirtiest" in the country's history, due to manipulative accusations, and was also marked by the increasing visibility of extremist religious parties.
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"It will depend on the organization of civil disobedience, political parties could organize sit-ins and demonstrations," he told AFP.
"No matter how it is managed, the immediate post-election climate will be Michael Kugelman, an analyst at the Wilson Center in Washington, who sees" no way to avoid a stormy period. "
Elections Wednesday, held under strong security measures, have been infrequent: a democratic transition between two civilian governments in this young country with a history of military coups. by the army almost half of its 71-year history.
The often young PTI supporters celebrated for much of the night the expected victory of their champion.
Imran Khan, known in the West as a womanizer, is rather a devotee to Pakistan, where he made the fight against corruption his electoral battle horse.
Some 800,000 military and police officers were deployed to ensure security
] But there were still several attacks on the polling stations. The most important of these was a suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, which left at least 31 dead and 70 wounded near a polling station in Quetta, in the province of Baluchistan (southwest). Inhalt
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