ISLAMABAD: On Thursday, former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi stated that although general elections were a “constitutional necessity,” the political establishment had a duty to give them “meaningful” significance.
Speaking to the media in Rawalpindi, the alienated PML-N leader revealed his thoughts. Over the past year, he had grown apart from the party leadership.
He had left his position as senior vice president of the party in February of last year in an attempt to provide Chief Organizer Maryam Nawaz with a “open field.”
In a media appearance today, Abbasi added that although he had chosen not to run in the elections on February 8, he had not given up on politics, calling them “useless.””It is the political leadership’s responsibility to make the elections meaningful and a means of solving the nation’s problems; elections are a constitutional necessity — it is not a choice whether to hold elections or not,” he stated.
The former premier declared, “The political leadership has failed in this action.”
He asserted that consensus among the nation’s judicial, military, and political elites was necessary to decide on the next course of action.
It is imperative that politicians understand that if elections turn contentious, the nation will never advance.
