ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) member parties have prepared a strategy to participate in the by-polls and Senate elections, scheduled in March, “instead of leaving the field open for ruling party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
According to details, the PDM’s member parties would offer complete support to each other during the by-elections on seats that were won by the PML-N. Likewise, PML-N has decided not to field a candidate in Sindh for by-elections on seats that were won by the PPP.
An important meeting was held between the provincial leadership of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Sindh and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in Karachi a day earlier.
During the meeting, it was decided that the PML-N will not field a candidate wherever PPP is contesting election, while the PML-N candidate from Tharparkar, who had submitted nomination papers, would withdraw from the elections. The same formula has been adopted for Punjab.
The by-polls are set to take place on two National Assembly and five provincial assemblies’ seats beginning February 16. By-polls for Sindh Assembly’s PS-43 (Sanghar-III) and PS-88 (Malir II) and Balochistan Assembly’s PB-20 (Pishin-III) will be held on February 16, 2021, while the voters in NA-45 (Kurram-I) and NA-75 (Sialkot IV) and Punjab Assembly’s PP-51 (Gujranwala I) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly’s PK-63 (Nowshera III) will elect their representatives on February 19, 2021.
