Parliament Moves, Elections Let Empire Losses Accumulate

Moon of Alabama

Yesterday saw three important political events, each with an outcome that is unsatisfactory for the U.S. and its European sidekicks.

In Pakistan the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) party had left the government coalition. Additionally some members of prime minister Imran Khan’s PTI party had change sides. The opposition in the parliament was preparing a no-confidence vote against him. At the same time a report by the Pakistani ambassador to the U.S. said that U.S. officials had warned that Pakistan would stay on their enemy list as long as Imran Khan was left in his position.

This was understood to be a call for regime change with rumored bribes pushing the swing votes against Khan.

Yesterday the deputy speaker of the parliament did not allow the no-confidence vote to take place. Imran Khan then asked the president of Pakistan to dissolve the parliament and announced new elections within 90 days.

The case is now in the hands of the supreme court of Pakistan which, after a session today, will continue to hear the case tomorrow.

It seems likely that the supreme court will make a ‘wise’ decision, blame everyone and agree to new elections.

It will then be the voters who will have to decide mainly on an issue of Pakistan’s foreign policy. Should it be independent and friendly with China and Russia or should it change back to the U.S. side?

I haven’t found any recent polls from Pakistan but a few days ago Khan’s party had won the local elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The people may well be impressed with his position and give him their vote.

As usual in Pakistan the military, who’s leadership tends to be pro-U.S., may intervene though I doubt that it will have sufficient public support for it.

In Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban has won his fourth election with his party again gaining a two-thirds majority. Hungary is in the EU and in NATO but Orban has his own ways and is friendly with Russia’s president Vladimir Putin:

Cont. reading: The Bucha Provocation

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