With the executive-judiciary crisis apparently over, the PML-N has decided to strongly resist in case the PPP-led coalition government attempts to pit the parliament against the judiciary, as a strong lobby in the government still insists that a resolution in favour of the prime minister’s executive authority should be passed in the National Assembly Session starting tomorrow (Monday).
Central leaders of the PML-N on Saturday decided that the party would resist with full force any move of the government to get a resolution passed from the National Assembly regarding the powers of the prime minister in the backdrop of the current executive-judiciary standoff.
“We have decided that the PML-N would resist any move by the coalition partners to get a resolution passed in favour of the prime minister’s executive powers… if the government brings any such resolution, the PML-N will also bring a resolution in favour of the judiciary condemning the government’s defiance of the Supreme Court and its decisions,” a PML-N leader, who attended high-level party meeting chaired by party president Nawaz Sharif in Murree, told Pakistan Today.
The PPP and its coalition partners recently decided in a high-level meeting at the Presidency that the government would back its prime minister through a resolution in the ongoing confrontation between the executive and the judiciary. Another PML-N leader said the PPP government did not believe in the supremacy of parliament and was just trying to use an institution against the other for its vested interests.
“If the PPP had any respect for parliament, it would have implemented its unanimously-passed resolutions on national security and the Abbottabad commission,” he added. According to a press release issued by the DGPR, PML-N President Nawaz Sharif while presiding over a consultative meeting of the newly-elected office bearers and leaders said the office bearers should devote their energies and abilities for the completion of the national agenda.
The participants said parliament was a supreme institution and there was no doubt in its supremacy “but any effort to make it a shield for corruption would be resented”, they said.
