The voters of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) are going to restart the election process which was hanging in a limbo due to the fiasco after the election of the party’s Lahore president.
The voters will be starting the election process for a wide array of officials.
The party high ups had tasked the senior leaders to resolve the dispute which had resulted in an armed scuffle between two groups and resulted in at least three workers being sent to jail. The losing candidates were also reported to have resigned from the party over the failure of the party leaders to announce re-election.
However, after senior level meetings, elections are going to resume on the seats that could not be filled because the ballot boxes were destroyed.
The violence that ensued after the party attempted to hold elections last time invited a lot of criticism from many quarters, while some also claimed that the party leaders who could not hold intra-party elections peacefully could never run the country.
However, PTI information Secretary Shafqat Mehmood viewed the entire exercise as a part of the democratic setup and said that the “exercise was a historic step in the country’s history.”
After the resolution of issues, the party is going elect a whole hierarchy of office bearers in the district and towns. Important posts include sports secretary, vice presidents, senior vice presidents and others.
Around 2,000 voters will cast votes in the intra-party elections today (Thursday) after party high ups’ claim that the past “mistakes” have been resolved.
District Election Commissioner Fayyaz Mehar has said that the party had hired vote counters from the Pakistan Bar Council and Lahore High Court Bar who were experienced. “Unlike the last time when the issue of placing ballot boxes created a fiasco, there is not going to be a need for it because the expert voter counters will finish counting within the stipulated time,” he added.
