Coming down hard on President Arif Alvi for not summoning the inaugural session of the National Assembly, Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari Tuesday said the head of the state would not be replaced via impeachment but the electoral process.
Speaking to journalists in Islamabad after the hearing of the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto death sentence reference, the PPP chairman said he foresees the president facing multiple cases for violating the Constitution.
“I think there will be two cases against President Arif Alvi for violating the Constitution […] One for dissolving the NA after the vote of no-confidence [against ex-prime minister Imran Khan] and another for failure to summon NA session as required by the Constitution,” he said.
His remarks come a day after the NA Secretariat summoned the lower house’s inaugural session on February 29 joined the party.
Commenting on the PPP’s decision to join hands with the Pakistan Muslim League-N), the PPP chairman said: “How could we have distanced ourselves [from govt formation]?”
The politician questioned whether the country’s economic problems would have been solved on its own had his party remained indifferent.
“If I say that I will not work with the PML-N then the basic problem of the people will not be solved,” he added.
Stressing that the party decided to support the side that approached them, Bilawal questioned why the SIC was objecting to the formation of the coalition government by others since they didn’t even approach the PPP in the first place.
“[We] should be thankful to the SIC and the PTI [for allowing] Shehbaz Sharif to become the country’s prime minister unopposed,” he added.
On the issue of the nomination of provincial governors, the PPP chairman revealed that his party’s Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari himself would announce the governors’ names after becoming president.
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