Elections to choose the president of the inter-parliamentary union (IPU) are underway with the results expected to be announced by November 4. Candidates of four countries are in the fray-Portugal’s Duarte Pacheco, Pakistan’s Muhammad Sanjrani, Uzbekistan’s Akmal Saidov and Canada’s Pakistani origin Salma Ataullahjan.
According to officials, India is set to oppose Pakistan’s candidature and may back Portugal’s Duarte Pacheco or Akmal Saidov from Uzbekistan over Muhammad Sanjrani from Pakistan.
Inter-Parliamentary Union or IPU, based in Geneva is a body consisting of representatives from the National Parliaments of 179 countries. Each national parliament sends 3 of its legislatures to represent the country whenever the meeting of IPU takes place.
The Governing Council is meeting virtually amid the COVID crisis from first to November 4 and will be…
