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Protests organised by the PDM in October 2020 drew over 50,000 people. [22] The government has remained critical and dismissive of the rallies. [23] The PDM planned to hold a "long march" in June 2021, [24] despite objections of large gatherings by health experts, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan. [citation needed]
As a result of the election, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) became the single largest party, though without an overall majority. PTI won 149 seats in the National Assembly. PTI won 149 seats in the National Assembly.
General elections, originally scheduled to be held in 2023, [4] were held in Pakistan on 8 February 2024 to elect the members of the 16th National Assembly.The Election Commission of Pakistan announced the detailed schedule on 15 December 2023.
The constitution of Pakistan allows for the removal of an incumbent prime minister if a no-confidence motion gains a simple majority. If parliament is not in session, opposition parties must also requisition the Speaker of the National Assembly to summon a session; once the requisition is submitted, the speaker has a maximum of 14 days to summon the session.
On 8 November 2017, MQM Pakistan and Pak Sarzameen Party announced an "establishment-sponsored" [15] [16] merger. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] However it took a long time before PSP merger was announced by Mustafa Kamal during a MQM convention with Farooq Sattar and Khalid Maqbool on 12 January 2023 before the 2023 local government elections in Sindh .
On 4 November 2017, one day before its 40th anniversary, the party was renamed the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) in order to facilitate modernisation and to shed its "colonial" name. [ 20 ] The party did well in 2019 election , scoring 16.65% (their best performance since 1989) and winning 16 seats in the National Assembly .
The Iowa Democratic caucuses took place on February 3, 2020. The results of the 2020 Iowa caucuses had been challenged by Bernie Sanders before the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee following certification, as of February 29, 2020. [22] However, no news reports about the outcome of that challenge had occurred afterwards.
The medal table of the 2020 Summer Paralympics ranks the participating National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals that are won by their athletes during the competition. The 2020 Paralympics were the sixteenth Games to be held, a quadrennial competition open to athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities .