PPP repeats demand for elections in 90 days
Leaders say political and constitutional crisis-like situation would persist if issue of elections was stretched.
KARACHI: PPP leaders Sherry Rehman, Faisal Karim Kundi and Nayyar Bokhari reiterated their party’s call for elections to be held within 90 days.
Addressing a press conference in Karachi after the party’s central executive committee (CEC), Rehman said it was “obvious” that a political and constitutional crisis-like situation would persist in the country if the issue of elections was stretched beyond 90 days.
“Our stance from day one is that elections should be held within 90 days according to the timeframe set by the Constitution. There is no need to unnecessarily take the country towards a political and constitutional crisis,“ she stressed.
Rehman said the PPP delegation would present the same to the ECP in its meeting with the body on August 29, after which the party would again convene a CEC meeting and determine its plan of action according to the commission’s response.
Rehman said the digital census was a “controversial” one for the party, adding that polls could not be delayed on the pretext of new delimitation if there was to be no increase in seats.
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