Inter-Parliamentary Union election: Portugal wins, Pakistan candidate gets lowest votes
New Delhi: Portugal on Monday gained the elections for the publish of the president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) with 222 votes. The new IPU president Duarte Pacheco was elected with 56 per cent of the vote in a single spherical of voting.
Candidates from 4 international locations have been within the fray for elections–Portugal’s Duarte Pacheco, Pakistan’s Muhammad Sanjrani, Uzbekistan’s Akmal Saidov and Canada’s Pakistani origin Salma Ataullahjan.
Uzbekistan obtained 67 votes, Canada obtained 53 votes and Pakistan obtained the bottom variety of votes at 52. According to officers, India was against Pakistan’s candidature and was anticipated to vote for both Portugal’s Duarte Pacheco or Akmal Saidov from Uzbekistan over Muhammad Sanjrani from Pakistan.
The time period of the brand new IPU president might be from 2020-2023. The earlier IPU president was Mexican MP Gabriela Cuevas Barron who accomplished the tenure in October.
Duarte Pacheco would be the 30th president of the IPU and has been a member of Portugal’s Parliament since 1991. He has held completely different features in Parliament, together with as a Member of the Budget and Finance Committee and the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Portuguese Communities.
IPU, based mostly in Geneva is a physique consisting of representatives from the National Parliaments of 179 international locations. Each nationwide parliament sends three of its legislatures to signify the nation every time the assembly of IPU takes place.
The Governing Council is assembly nearly amid the COVID-19 disaster from November 1-Four and voted nearly. 400 parliamentarians from over 140 IPU Member Parliaments had registered to vote electronically.
The elections came about by a distant digital secret poll. The Indian Parliamentary Delegation is led by Speaker of the Lok Sabha Om Birla and Poonamben Hematbhai Maadam and Swapan Dasgupta each legislators within the Indian Parliament.
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