November 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of Pakistan, Arif Alvi, has revealed this Saturday that he has unsuccessfully tried to negotiate an agreement for the calling of early elections in which both the coalition government and the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) party of Irman Jan participated. .
“But all the efforts have failed,” Alvi explained from Punjab in statements collected by the Pakistani newspaper ‘Dawn’. Alvi has defended the need to call elections given the climate of political crisis that the country is experiencing.
In this regard, he explained that he is in contact with “institutions that can play an effective role in resolving these issues.”
In particular, he is working to improve relations between Jan and the system after the latter criticized the government and a high-ranking official in the secret services for the recent assassination attempt he suffered.
Jan became the first Pakistani president to be removed in a vote of no confidence in April, he was disqualified at the end of October by the electoral commission for failing to declare money from the sale of gifts and gifts received from international leaders when they was at the head of the government.
His departure from office was followed by growing political tension marked by turncoat scandals and massive protests for and against the prime minister, denounced by the opposition alliance of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (MDP) as a “puppet” of the Army. The Armed Forces are considered the most powerful establishment in Pakistan since its independence from the British Raj in 1947.
