PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said Friday the Senate chairman election 2021 “has been stolen”.
“The PDM has defeated the [PTI] government in the National Assembly and the Senate,” he claimed, referring to the Opposition parties’ anti-government coalition under the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) banner.
“Their bias and their biased, illegal decision is right in front of you. Seven votes for the chairman of the Senate of Pakistan were cast in favour of Yousaf Raza Gillani.
“Those votes were cast properly, legally, constitutionally, but seven senators of the Senate of Pakistan were purposefully disenfranchised and Gillani sahab, despite winning, has still not sat on that seat.
“Those seven votes were in line with whichever Supreme Court precedents you wish to bring up or the stance or position of the Election Commission [of Pakistan (ECP)], they were legal votes.”
