Despite the PTI’s decision to stay out of the upcoming Senate elections, local party leaders and members of the Punjab Assembly are planning to join forces to send at least one PTI senator to the upper house.
The party has a total of 30 lawmakers in the Punjab Assembly, including 25 directly-elected MPAs, four women and one minority member. Each senator needs a minimum of 34 votes from the provincial assembly to be elected to the Senate.
A PTI MPA, stated that the party could obtain the required number of votes.
He said that MPAs had tried to come together to convince Imran Khan to take part in the Senate elections. “If we get a go-ahead, then PTI MPAs will attend Punjab Assembly session on Jan 30,” he said.
The MPA said that several members were already opposed to the resignations and had submitted faulty resignations not addressed to the speaker or left some deliberate errors in them so that they would not be accepted.
“Two members, including PTI Vice President Amir Kiani and PTI Punjab President Ijaz Chaudhry, will be our candidates for the Senate if the party decides to gave them tickets,” he said.
The party has already decided to take part in the Senate election from KP, and has said it would stay away from Senate elections in the centre and Punjab.
The PTI is in power in KPK and firmly believes that rigging took place in every province where it was defeated.
