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By Tariq Butt ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, who has been fielded by the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) as its joint candidate for a federal capital seat in the Senate, faces a big challenge to muster nearly a dozen-and-a-half additional votes to defeat the ruling coalition’s representative. If the Members of the National Assembly (MNAs) vote strictly according to the party line, Gilani is obviously going to lose. However, the margin of victory for the governing alliance’s nominee is unlikely to be huge due to the electoral college numbers. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and its allies have an edge of some 15 votes over the PDM’s tally, according to the numerical strength of the two sides. The PTI has 156 votes, the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) has five MNAs, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) has seven MNAs, the Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) has three, the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) has five MNAs and Sheikh Ra ....
National December 11, 2020 ISLAMABAD: As many as 470 seats of the national and provincial assemblies a significant 44 percent of the total will fall vacant if all the lawmakers belonging to the constituent parties of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) tender their resignations as announced by the 11-party opposition alliance. The total strength of the national and four provincial assemblies comes to 1,070 legislators. Some six seats – two national and four provincial – are currently vacant, awaiting by-polls, which the Election Commission of Pakistan has postponed on the recommendation of the National Command and Operation Center (NCO) due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The National Assembly comprises 342 members; the Punjab Assembly has 371 members; the Sindh Assembly consists of 168 lawmakers; the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly has 124 lawmakers; and the Balochistan Assembly comprises 65 members. ....