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Posts tagged as “General Election”

The Deepening Political Polarisation

by M Alam Brohi in Daily Times, Nov 29, 2022The author was a member of the Foreign Service of Pakistan With the prolonged sit-in of PTI in Islamabad in 2016; the revelations of Panama Leaks involving Mian Nawaz Sharif and his family in corruption; his disqualification by the Supreme Court in 2017; the PTI victory in the general elections of 2018; the refusal of mainstream political parties including PML-N, PPP and JUI to concede defeat…

President hints election unlikely before July 2023

report in The Morning, Oct 10, 2022According to a press release issued by the Presidential Media Division (PMD) yesterday (9), President Ranil Wickremesinghe is to appoint a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) to decide on the Parliamentary voting system by July next year, with the next General Election to be held under the new system. This virtually rules out the possibility of Parliament being dissolved, or an election being held, in the first half of 2023,…