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handle is hein.crs/goveosq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: S Congressional ____ R fesearch Service Pakistan's 2024 National Election March 21, 2024 Overview Congress has taken interest in Pakistan's democratization, viewing progress as important to U.S. interests including security cooperation and economic stability. In the 118h Congress, H.Res. 901-expressing support for democracy and human rights in Pakistan-has garnered 101 bipartisan cosponsors to date. Elections to seat Pakistan's National Assembly (NA) and four provincial assemblies to five-year terms took place on February 8, 2024, after nearly three months' delay and two years of political turmoil. Pakistanis' discontent was on display in the run-up to the election, including in pre-election violence. A record-high seven in ten told pollsters economic conditions were worsening, and the same number expressed a lack of confidence in election credibility. Voter turnout was under 48% among the 128 million registered voters, a decline from above 52% in the 2018 elections. More than 5,100 NA candidates (94% of them male) and 167 registered political parties participated in the February 2024 elections. The contest to fill 266 contested NA seats (70 are reserved for women and minorities) pitted the Pakistan Muslim League faction of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (PML-N), and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) under Bilawal Bhutto Zardari-son of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and former President Asif Ali Zardari-against independent candidates affiliated with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI or Movement for Justice) party founded by former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Khan, elected prime minister in 2018, was removed from office by an April 2022 NA no- confidence vote and later jailed on corruption charges and barred from holding office. His still-popular party was largely dismantled, leaving its candidates to run as PTI-supported independents. PTI's independents won at least 93 seats-a plurality-shocking observers, who called the outcome a political miracle and a bloody nose for Pakistan's establishment (a euphemism for the military and intelligence services). Without allies, however, they could not form a government. The PML-N (75 seats) and PPP (54 seats) cobbled together smaller parties (and some independents) to form a coalition government under Shehbaz Sharif, Nawaz's younger brother, who was sworn in as Pakistan's prime minister on March 3. Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN12336 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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