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General elections were held in Pakistan on 18 February 2008, after being postponed from 8 January 2008. The original date was intended to elect members of the National Assembly, the lower house of the Parliament of Pakistan. On 3 November 2007, President and Chief of army staff General Pervez Musharraf enacted a state of emergency; elections were initially postponed indefinitely. However, it was later stated they would be held as planned. On 8 November 2007, Musharraf announced that the election would be held by 15 February 2008, but the election date was changed to occur on or before 9 January 2008. Musharraf also suggested 8 January 2008 as the election date.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/6305041.html )〕 Following the assassination on Benazir Bhutto of PPP, the Election Commission conducted a meeting and announced that "elections on 8 January were no longer possible and instead, the elections would take place on 18 February 2008." President General Pervez Musharraf, supported by PML-Q, conceded the defeat of his party and pledged to work with the new Parliament. Around 35.2 million people cast their vote and the voter turnout was 44.01%.〔("Panorama of Parliamentary Elections 2008" ) ''An Annual Publicationof the Inter-Parliamentary Union'', 2008 ed.〕 By-elections for 28 seats (23 provincial and 5 national) have been delayed numerous times, with most of them now held on 26 June 2008. Results indicated that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML(N)) secured the largest votes in the elections. Due to common mistrust on Pervez Musharraf, the two parties initially formed the coalition government with Yosaf Raza Gillani as Prime Minister of Pakistan. Within week, the PML(N) left the coalition to lead the impeachment movement and to restore judiciary; the PPP instead formed a leftist alliance, containing MQM, ANP, and JUI(F). ==Terrorism== Since 2004, there was a sharp rise of terrorism incidents took place during the presidency of General Pervez Musharraf. A serious incident took place in Red Mosque located in Islamabad when Police's special forces conducted an armed raid in the Mosque. The general elections were dealt with a great shock on 27 December 2007 when Benazir Bhutto was assassinated while leaving a rally in Rawalpindi. Bhutto's assassination raised many questions as to whether the general election would be postponed. Following the fatal attack, Pervez Musharraf held an emergency meeting with other government officials, but stated that "no decision had been made on whether to delay the national elections." Benazir Bhutto had "become an appealing solution" to United States officials frustrated with President Musharraf's failure to restore democracy to Pakistan, ''The New York Times'' said. The PML(N) stated after the assassination that his party would boycott the election. The PML(N) later stated that the party would take part if PPP contests the election. The PPP then decided to name Benazir Bhutto's son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the new party leader with his father Asif Ali Zardari as co-leader, as asked for in Benazir Bhutto's testament. The party also decided that it would contest the elections and stated that the elections should be held as planned. The Election Commission announced after a meeting in Islamabad that an 8 January vote was no longer possible and the election would take place on 18 February.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pakistani general election, 2008」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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