PM asks opposition to follow Constitution, wait for elections in 2013
ISLAMABAD, Nov 1 (APP): Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani said opposition should follow the Constitution and mobilize masses for elections in 2013 as call for early polls is a frivolous demand. Speaking in an online television programme hosted jointly by PTV and AAJ TV, Gilani said since the present government is entering its fifth year of rule and was preparing to present its fifth budget in June 2012, talking about early elections is a “joke”. “How you can afford to dislodge an elected government. It would be inviting a third party,” he remarked and advised the opposition parties to follow Constitution and mobilize masses for the next elections, which would be held in 2013.
Gilani said since the President has surrendered his powers of dissolving the assemblies in favour of the Prime Minister, why he would advise for dissolving the assemblies.
 “There is a Constitutional process. If they (the opposition parties) do not like me they can bring a no-confidence motion against me in the assembly”, he remarked and added similarly the Constitution also provides a process of impeachment of the President.
 To another question, the Prime Minister said due to dictatorial interferences there have not been frequent elections in Pakistan, adding, frequent elections are ‘a filter’ in politics, through which good people come to power and the bad people are rejected by masses.