PPP announced bycott of July 30 Presidential Election

The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has announced to boycott the presidential elections according to presidential candidate Raza Rabbani during an emergency press conference on Friday.

PPP’s former Law Minister of Sindh, Ayaz Soomro, informed the Chief Election Commissioner in writing about the party’s decision to boycott the presidential election.

Addressing a press conference in the federal capital city PPP’s presidential candidate and senior leader Senator Raza Rabbani said that his party was left with no other option but to boycott the poll.

Rabbani thanked other opposition partners for their support and said their favours could never be repaid.

The Awami National Party (ANP) and the Balochistan National Party – Awami (BNP-A) also announced a boycott of the presidential poll.

Senator Haji Adeel, belonging to the Awami National Party, said that his party had already announced that it would support any decision taken by the PPP.

He further said that the court had taken a ‘one-sided decision’ which was ‘unjust.

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Acoording to sources saying, that the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) had also decided to boycott the election for president.

The main opposition party’s decision came as it said that enough time was not given to campaign for the presidential election.