ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) candidate Usman Bhatti on Thursday won by-elections for the Punjab Assembly constituency of PP-194 in Multan. According to unofficial results, Bhatti got 20,416 votes, defeating Moeen Riaz Qureshi of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz who bagged 20,097 votes.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani congratulated Bhatti on winning the by-elections. The prime minister said Bhatti’s success reflected people’s confidence in the PPP. Meanwhile, President Asif Ali Zardari also called Gilani and congratulated him on the victory of Bhatti.
LOL... dude try reading it again, calmly this time.
Some are adament that people all over pakistan are fed up with PPP. Well since they aren't in Multan, the notion that people are fed up everywhere can't be true. The first sentence of your post makes no sense in response to my post.
If MQM is consistantly able to garner more support than its opponents, then YES a majority of the poeple in those constituencies likes them at best or likes them more than other parties at worst.
LOL... dude try reading it again, calmly this time.
Some are adament that people all over pakistan are fed up with PPP. Well since they aren't in Multan, the notion that people are fed up everywhere can't be true. The first sentence of your post makes no sense in response to my post.
Well they are also in Multan , youtube it yourself and you will find several TV shows and programs done on the unhappiness of PM's own constituency.
The sad thing is what happens to those angry voices when it comes to election . had it been a fair process , you wouldn't be seeing such results.
If MQM is consistantly able to garner more support than its opponents, then YES a majority of the poeple in those constituencies likes them at best or likes them more than other parties at worst.
You need to take a crush course of ' Elections in Pakistan 101 ' :)
Well they are also in Multan , youtube it yourself and you will find several TV shows and programs done on the unhappiness of PM's own constituency.
The sad thing is what happens to those angry voices when it comes to election . had it been a fair process , you wouldn't be seeing such results.
You need to take a crush course of ' Elections in Pakistan 101 ' :)
Ah, the fallback position! Just like US is happy to support democracy unless the undesirable party is elected!
I am by no means saying that influence peddling does not result in election victories. But that is the case for all political parties. In my opinion, PPP gets a bad rep no matter what. While I do not doubt that there are unhappy people all over the country, the evidence of the media is no evidence at all. They could find unhappy people in paradise and make it seem like an undesirable place to be.
You can not make claims of unfairness without providing any proof. The system is the way it is. Next general election will be conducted in the same system. All you can do is to hope that the election commission is fair and impartial and that the voting lists are genuine. In an ideal system, you'd hope that the electorate does not fear repurcussions for exercising their franchise. But that will come with time. Until then, unfortunate as it is, the field is level for all parties and the one that emerges victorious has the right to govern.
Has anyone got the figures of the other parties? It appears to me at least that PML may have had more defectors to other parties causing the drop ... Someone rightly said that it is only by a few hundred ... by proportion the victory is 1.6% more than second place. To get the fuller picture we need to see the other firgures ... My guess is that both PPP and PML have suffered losses in favour of other up coming parties.
Another important aspect of this seat's election is that PML(N) gave the ticket to "saaf shaffaf lota acquired" from PML(Q)
Muinuddin Riaz Qureshi (PML(N) candidate) had earlier contested the seat from a PML(Q) ticket and had served as the provincial minister following his successful election in the 2002 general elections.
The fact is that some jahil people will vote for these idiots no matter what happens to the country, unki soch aik had tak aa k khatam ho jati hai.
I have seen some positive things as well so i won't be too much disappointed. I am sure things will be a lot different in general elections so i won't give too much importance to these results. It's also a fact that Zardari's South Punjab province is a good tactic and PMLN/PTI will need to come up with something solid to tackle PPP.
As per the article, PPP was almost certain that they will lose the seat once again to PML(N). None of the top PPP leader or minister came to help in campaign and PPP gave the ticket to very loyal and not-so-rich worker who has to sell his house to run the campaign.
PPP was losing the election in first 2-3 hours of the polls but as soon as the Court’s verdict on Gillani came, table was turned, PPP supporters came out in huge number to put their votes.
Bolta Pakistan did the program on this phenomena yesterday. It means people didn’t accept the SC verdict. at least Multani’s didn’t accept it.
it’s also a question mark on the credibility of our self-righteous media & opinion makers.
Looks like sad news for promoters of IK. This result proved all threads bashing PPP are subjective and self imagined. Reality is quite different and bitter for bashers, isn't it?
It seems as if the president and PM has been successful in conveying to the Seraiki nationalists that the prime minister is being targeted since he wants to make a seraiki province.For Seraiki nationalists, it’s a moral victory | DAWN.COM
Looks like sad news for promoters of IK. This result proved all threads bashing PPP are subjective and self imagined. Reality is quite different and bitter for bashers, isn't it?
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you are right, we should get ready for PPP winning 95% seats in next elections, right?
Just like Aitzaz Ahsan said today that "we accept court judgement but it does not mean that we accept it as fair" ... I also accept PPP's mandate but do not accept it as deserving. But then it's my opinion and I maybe wrong.
Leaving loot and plunder, Zardari’s politics is new kind of ‘give and take’ politics for Pakistan. It is effective as well as progressive. PPP in 2008 could have easily 1formed government in Punjab with the help of PMLQ, but Zardari gave it to PMLN on plate. I think generosity was a political game to take Punjab out of PMLN hands permanently and that is what is happening.
Similarly, PPP could have formed government in KPK, but gave the government to ANP to woo them as PPP allies. As for Sindh, they made alliance with MQM regardless of situation in Sindh Assembly. Only place they played negative politics was in Baluchistan where PMLQ was the largest party still PPP grabbed the government (offering every MPA a ministry). I believe Zardari knew that without Musharraf PMLQ would break up as happened, so he played politics to hasten that breakup.
It seems Zardari knows how Pakistani electable as well as how Pakistan electorate thinks. Today, even with loot, plunder, corruption, nepotism, and mismanagement, PPP is in much stronger position than before (compare to other political parties). As the situation is in Pakistan, I would not be surprised if PPP would form next government again.