The motion was “approved” by 174 of the 342 deputies. Imran Khan is the first Pakistanian government leader to fall on a vote of distrust.
Le Monde and AP and
The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, was overthrown, Saturday, April 9, by a motion of censorship, voted against him by the National Assembly, after several weeks of political crisis. Despite two adjournments in the day, Mr. Khan’s maneuver to stay in Pakistan failed.
The motion was “approved” by 174 of the 342 deputies, announced the Acting President of the House, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq. Imran Khan is the first leader of Pakistani government to fall on a vote of distrust.
The opposition will train the new government. The leader of the most important opposition party, the Muslim League of Pakistan, will occupy the position of Prime Minister.
This vote then intervenes that the Supreme Court had inflicted on Thursday a cooking set at Prime Minister Pakistani. The latter had attempted to escape, four days earlier, to this motion of the opposition by dissolving the National Assembly and calling for advance general elections.
The five magistrates of the highest court of the country had held unanimously that the ploy to prevent the vote of distrust was unconstitutional and that all subsequent decisions were without legal effect. The National Assembly was therefore restored, as well as the government.