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AFPPakistan parliament to reelect Musharraf: PM
April 23 2007 at 03:54PM
Islamabad - Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf will be elected for a second term by the sitting parliament in September or October before it is dissolved ahead of general elections, Premier Shaukat Aziz said. Aziz's comments are the first confirmation of a move that has been floated in political circles for months and that opposition groups say is unconstitutional.
They say military ruler Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999, should be elected by the legislature after the parliamentary polls, which are due late this year or early next.
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He promised to shed his uniform at the end of 2004 but reneged on the pledge, saying he needed to keep his military role to tackle extremism and other threats to the country.
The move detailed by Aziz comes at a time of political turmoil in Pakistan following Musharraf's dismissal of the country's chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, on March 9. Opposition groups have said that Musharraf did so to to weaken the judiciary ahead of any potential legal challenges against his plans to stay on as army chief and to get reelected by the current parliament.
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