Asad Qaiser, the head of the PTI and a former speaker of the National Assembly, announced on Thursday that a broad coalition of political parties will be established to combat election “rigging.”
Speaking to the media outside of Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail, Qaiser stated that the PTI will organize a campaign and hold talks with all the parties whose mandates had been stolen, including Jamaat-e-Islami for the grand alliance. “It is unfortunate that this area lacks a state.”
He insisted that the power to form a government should go to those who had won the elections in accordance with the “original” Forms-45.
Speaking to the alliance headed by the PML-N, he said, “You don’t have the power to form the government and cabinet.” He expressed sadness that he could not see PTI founder chairman Imran Khan at the jail administration’s request.
He acknowledged that the governor had swore in his party’s MPAs, citing a constitutional duty.
“President Dr. Arif Alvi administered the oath to the current [federal] cabinet,” he said, alluding to the fact that the head of state was a member of his party.
A PTI spokesperson made a related demand, citing the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency’s (Pildat) assessment report as justification for a comprehensive and unbiased audit of the results of the “most rigged” elections. The goal is to reclaim the people’s mandate from the “thieves” and give it back to their “rightful representatives.”
The PTI spokesperson noted in a statement that Pildat, in its report “Assessment of the Quality of General Election 2024,” raised serious concerns about the credibility, fairness, and transparency of the polls and pushed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to respond. Pildat was prompted to make these concerns after the Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen) and Pattan Development Organization raised them.
He said that the fairness score of the general elections in 2024 fell to its lowest point since 2013, as shown by the Pildat evaluation report, and that this was sufficient evidence of the “fake” administration run by “rejected” individuals.
He went on to say that the Pildat evaluation report supported the electoral watchdog’s “criminal” involvement in snatching the public’s mandate through widespread election “rigging” throughout the nation.
He continued by saying that this year’s elections were the least fair in the previous ten years due to a variety of circumstances, including a postponement of the election schedule and the nationwide outage of cellphone and internet services on election day.
The PTI spokesperson remembered that the former Rawalpindi commissioner had earlier “unmasked” the heinous plan to turn the majority into a minority by poll “robbery” in the middle of the night by stomping results.
He said that the entire country was made aware of the “dirty plot” of results “tampering” when the ECP released modified Forms-45 on its website far beyond the deadline and in flagrant violation of the Election Act.
A spokesman for the PTI said that a government that was founded on a “stolen” mandate and was thus “unconstitutional” lacked the competence to make choices that would be in the best interests of the country.
He went on to say that the idea to divide the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) reserved seats among other political parties would worsen political unrest and instability in the nation after depriving the PTI of the seats it had decisively won.
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