{"id":28911,"date":"2024-03-12T17:20:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T12:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=28911"},"modified":"2024-03-12T17:20:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T12:20:04","slug":"ppp-jui-f-joint-hands-for-senate-by-election-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ppp-jui-f-joint-hands-for-senate-by-election-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"PPP &#038; JUI-F joint hands for Senate By-Election 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Pakistan People\u2019s Party (PPP) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) have formed an alliance for the upcoming Senate by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve agreed that PPP will support JUI candidates in Balochistan, while JUI will back Yousaf Raza Gillani, a PPP candidate. Both parties have clarified that their collaboration is solely for parliamentary purposes and not for forming a government. The Senate by-election is scheduled for March 14, with vacant seats in Balochistan being a focal point where JUI seeks PPP&#8217;s support.<\/p>\n<p>Gillani expressed his appreciation for the alliance, emphasizing their mutual support for parliamentary proceedings. Notably, Gillani and Ilyas Meharban from Sunni Ittehad Council will contest for a vacant Senate seat from Islamabad. The by-election will take place for six seats across Islamabad, Sindh, and Balochistan, with polling scheduled from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/fazal-rejects-election-results-announces-country-wide-protests.html\">Fazal rejects election results, announces country-wide protests<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>These vacant seats resulted from senators transitioning to other legislative bodies, necessitating by-elections to fill the vacancies. Previously, PPP nominated Gillani for the Senate chairman position, prompting him to resign from his National Assembly seat in Multan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Pakistan People\u2019s Party (PPP) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) have formed an alliance for the upcoming Senate by-elections. They&#8217;ve agreed that PPP will support JUI candidates in Balochistan, while JUI will back Yousaf Raza Gillani, a PPP candidate. Both parties have clarified that their collaboration is solely for parliamentary purposes and not for forming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[10434,9863,1201,246,13206],"class_list":["post-28911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-elections-2024","tag-juif","tag-pakistan-peoples-party","tag-ppp","tag-senate-by-election-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}