PPPP accepts election results despite serious reservations

The Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians has accepted the verdict of the people as expressed by them through the May 11 vote, the President of the PPP Makhdoom Amin Fahim said.

Although the Party has serious reservations about the fairness of the polls it has accepted the results in the larger interest of political stability, democracy and the welfare of the people of Pakistan,” he said in a statement.

Fahim said that denial of level playing field to it and other democratic parties by the militants on the one hand and the gerrymandering in a number of constituencies on the other has eroded the credibility of fair and free elections.

The Party also deplores that its protests on this count were heeded neither by the Election Commission of Pakistan nor by the caretaker government, he said.

Makhdoom Amin Fahim called upon the Election Commission of Pakistan to look into all the complaints the Party has lodged with it and redress the same in accordance with the law.

Having accepted the verdict of the people the PPPP will continue to play a robust role in and out of Parliament to strengthen democracy and democratic institutions in the country, he said.

Meanwhile President Asif Ali Zardari has felicitated the nation on the holding of elections to mark the first democratic transition in the country.

Spokesperson to the President Senator Farhatullah Babar said that the President while felicitating the nation said that the holding of elections in accordance with the Constitutional provisions was triumph of the people, of democracy and of the system put in place for democratic transition.

The President also felicitated all the national institutions and individuals who worked hard to make possible the holding of this gigantic exercise so vital for the strengthening of democracy.

“The people of Pakistan have spoken through the ballot”, the President further said.

The President expressed the hope that the next phase of democratic transition namely the smooth transfer of power in accordance with the will of the people as expressed by them through the vote will also be completed soon in accordance with the Constitution, the Spokesperson said.

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