The Election 2024 results have signified the people’s unshakable trust in the electoral process as well as the strong parliamentary system and have pinned high expectations on their elected representatives to address their problems besides taking the country forward on the road to progress and development, experts said.
“The people of Pakistan delivered the verdict on February 8, 2024, and now it is up to elected representatives, institutions and political leadership to accept their decision imperative to carry the ship of democracy forward and take the country out of the shabby economic situation,” said Professor Dr A.H.Hilali, ex-Chairman Political Science Department, University of Peshawar while talking to APP on Sunday.
The split electoral mandate which was given to mainstream political parties on February 8 is a manifestation of pluralism in the country’s politics besides signifying that people of Pakistan wanted resolution of their problems and country’s challenges through a national government represented by all political parties, he said.
“Pakistan is currently facing enormous challenges including shabby economy, terrorism, security issues, price hike, inflation and climate change and no political party can address it single-handedly, and that is why people of Pakistan had given split mandate to political parties for resolution of these issues amicably,” he said.
By taking lessons from the past; he said that political leadership should immediately sit together and form a coalition government as quickly as possible to take the country out of economic challenges by accepting each other’s mandate wholeheartedly.
Independent candidates have so far won 93 seats at the National Assembly, 116 in Punjab Assembly, 11 in Sindh Assembly, 83 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly while PML-N’s clinched 77 seats at National Assembly, 137 seats in Punjab, 10 in Balochistan.—APP
