Former cricket champion, in power since 2018, is weakened by the economic crisis and the resurgence of terrorist attacks. It may be put in minority in the National Assembly by a united front of the opposition.
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Contrary winds blow on Islamabad, and the days of Prime Minister Pakistani, Imran Khan, are counted: the Pakistan National Assembly accepted, Monday, March 28, the filing of a motion of censorship that must be submitted to the vote. At the beginning of April. If adopted – it would be a first since the independence of the country – Imran Khan, elected in 2018, will have to resign, one year before the normal deadline of the general elections, planned in 2023.
Parliamentary arithmetic is in the unfavoring of the former crich champion, aged 69. His party, the Pakistan Movement for Justice (Pakistan Tehrik-e-INSAF, PTI), which controls 156 of the 342 seats of the National Assembly, does not have the majority alone. He is at the head of a fragile coalition, combined with regional political formations. Not only did he lose some of their support, but also a dozen parliamentarians of his own training. Wednesday, March 30, after a new defection, the opposition could count on 177 votes, more than the majority set at 172 parliamentarians, to overthrow the Prime Minister.
Cashing and threats
In recent weeks, Imran Khan has alternated gestures of appeasement and threats, offering an olive branch to the dissidents of his party, claiming to forgive them as a “compassionate father” if they supported him again, Before warning that the fensions were to be ready to undergo a “Social Boycott”. As for his opponents, he chose the Inverctive, calling them for “gang of thieves”.
They consist of a troika, including the Bhutto clan, led by the son of the former first murdered first minister Benazir, the Sharif – associate clan, too, to the family of another former head of government – and the largest Islamist party of the country, the Jamirat Unema-e-Islami-Fazal (JUI-F), led by a religious fundamentalist, Fazlur Rehman. Since 2018, all dispute the legitimacy of Khan, considering his election as rigged. They accuse him of being the head of the economic crisis crosses by the country, marked by unemployment and record inflation (more than 12% this year), including foodstuffs and energy, a weakening of the rupee and an overwhelming debt. They also blame him for selling the country’s sovereignty at the IMF.
Elected with the support of the military, on the promise to revitalize the economy in favor of the poor, create jobs for young people, put an end to endemic corruption, do not use external loans and improve the external image of the Country, Imran Khan is in check. The poor and the middle class suffer as ever, many of its ministers are involved in corruption cases and the indebtedness cycle has not been stopped. The Khan government has entered into an agreement with the IMF, in May 2019, on a $ 6 billion (€ 5.38 billion) aid program.
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