ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Swabi District President Shah Malik Yousafzai has petitioned to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) against the party’s recently held intra-party polls terming them illegal.
He urged the ECP to declare the intra-party polls illegal and call for fresh elections.
Earlier this month, PTI Chief Election Commissioner Azam Swati declared successful holding of the party’s intra-party polls, which were won by the ‘Insaf Panel’.
According to Swati, the Insaf Panel received 189,055 votes while the Ehtesab Panel bagged 41,647 votes.The members of the party — around two million in number — sent their votes via SMS to elect the party’s hierarchy.
A very low turnout was witnessed in the intra-party polls, which are mandatory under the electoral laws of the country.
The Ehtesab Panel had little known PTI members competing against the party’s bigwigs part of the Insaf Panel.
Following the intra-party polls, the ECP allowed the PTI to be allotted the electoral symbol of the cricket bat, which it had restricted earlier owing to the lack of intra-party elections.
